Improvement of the latex adhesive production control system based on the concept of Lean Automation

Abstract

Many factories want to automate production processes to reduce production costs. This research aims to find the causes of problems and waste in production. To improve the polymerization method of latex adhesive production process by focusing on reducing wastage caused by waste moving unnecessary things unnecessary movement and waste from the process by using questioning techniques Why-why analysis and Cause and effect diagram to find the cause of the defect. Once the cause has been identified, start with Lean Manufacturing activities to design steps to improve the production process to make the production process more efficient and flow continuously. Subsequently, automation technology was applied to create an automated, lean manufacturing process. After the improvement from the total production of 24 batches, no production waste problems were found. Furthermore, the production time was reduced from 15 hours to 12 hours and 15 minutes, or 18.33 percent of the time reduction. 1,531.25 baht per production cycle reduced the labor costs