Production Improvement in Din-Kor Tiles Process: A Case study of World Heritage Town Luang Prabang
Narathip Pawaree *
Industrial Management Faculty of Technology Udonthani Rajabhat University, 41000

Abstract

This research improves the Din-kor tiles handling problem for increase the Din-kor tiles quantity which 2 methods to the problems solution are 1. The distance of handling decrease by improving the plant layout. As a result, the improvement of plant layout is produced by Computerized Relationship Layout Planning (CORELAP) method, which can reduce the distance of handling by 60 meters per day or 12% of the distance before improvement 2. The new equipment design is a basket for containing tiles, which can reduce the distance of handling by 480 meters per day or 50% of the distance before improvement. Moreover, the wasting time from airing tiles process can be reduced by 40 minutes or 22%. Therefore, this improvement can reduce the overall distance 540 meters per day and the wasting time from airing tiles process decreases 40 minutes..

Keywords : Production Improvement, Computerized Relationship Layout Planning (CORELAP), Handling