INCREASING THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE FURNITURE INDUSTRY WITH KAIZEN CASE STUDY IN SBRC FURNITURE JEPARA

Abstract

Business competition in the digital era is very tight and dynamic. The furniture industry is required to always innovate and run efficiently in increasing its productivity. The increase in productivity is in line with the company's efforts to increase profits in line with efforts to maintain product quality and optimal customer service. However, efforts to increase this will be hampered by several aspects of waste. This is what small and medium enterprises such as SBRC Furniture, which is engaged in the production of carved frames, feel. This research aims to identify various wastes that occur by converting them through the Kaizen method to provide constructive notes to increase business productivity. The results of the study show that the production of SBRC Furniture carving frames in 2021 is 5.52 kg/hour, it is necessary to evaluate and re-plan. Factors causing productivity failure at CV SBRC Furniture are defects and wastage of time. Improvement planning with kaizen can be done by improving maintenance, providing a backup energy source as a backup for power outages, and storing raw materials after the oven is scheduled according to the production schedule.