The rise of raw material prices for production will cause the sale price of the final product to be uncompetitive, therefore it is a great concern for business owners. The effort of process improvement to raise efficiency in usage of various resources owned by the company is also conducted by

In order to achieve competitive advantage and sound business processes, one of the strategies developed is aimed at production process efficiency by eliminating all types of waste within the process.. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) method is utilized to detect the sources of such wastes. This research is intended to yield

Having strategy based on strategy formulation results does not guarantee that the strategy will be carried out. Strategies at the corporate level should also be carried out in the departments/work units in that company down to the level of the individual in charge. A method that is capable to clarify

Less ergonomic job conditions will generate more worker fatigue, caused stress created by parts of the body that are not comfortable. Thereby the existing work system should be improved by incorporating ergonomic principles. This work system will be improved by rearranging equipments and modifying facility layout. To improve arrangement of

Sophisticated machinery can only demonstrate its superiority during the production process, while its operation and maintenance still depend on human skills and a good maintenance system. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) can be applied to raise company productivity without abandoning scheduled machine maintenance. The purpose of this research is

Production quality is a very critical element in the pharmaceutical industry. One of the methods used to increase product quality is to decrease error factors and product defects, which can have a bad impact on the final product quality. Method DMAIC as an improvement model for Six Sigma is used

Chika Ice Home Industry represents a home industry that manufactures ice candle, not having its own raw materials inventory system. The main cause is lack of implementation of the calculation method for optimal inventory control. This research focuses on establishing the optimum level of bookings for critically classified raw materials.