Abstract:
The purpose of this independent study were to study the activities that made waste in supply chain and to provide guideline for performance improvement to the FI Company. The study of production supply chain of FI Company found there were 2 kinds of wastes, which were machine waste and material waste. The initial problem was from foreseen in knowledge guideline process to minimize the implementing process. Thus, the researcher would like to evaluate the wastes with the failure mode and effect analysis.
In preliminary results, it found two main problems: broken hot knife (machine waste) and black spot on the plastic bottle (material waste). There were 16.8 percent of the broken hot knife and 8.1 percent of the black spot on the plastic bottle. The business lost in amount of money as 143,349.12 Thai baht per year. Therefore, the wastes improvement guidance were created to solve the problem. The first solution is to acknowledge the workers to tighten copper properly for decreasing electric arc. The second solution is to acknowledge the workers to clean up the machine after scraped evenly for increasing purity of plastic.