A system study on the fabrication of aluminum frames of Loxon Wandset Philippines, Inc.

• Main Authors: Esmerio, Jonathan, Manuel, Ferdinand, Senga, Michael Paolo
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2001
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/12020
• Institution: De La Salle University

Executive Summary. Loxon Wandset Philippines Incorporated is a service company that installs curtain wall systems and manufactures aluminum frames for the glass and cladding. In this study, the focus is placed on the manufacture of aluminum frames to be used for the curtain wall system. Through the study, it was found out that in 1998 and 1999 the plant is only having a utilization of 53.86%. With this low utilization, the company incurred an opportunity loss of pesos. The company earns a standard ten percent of the contract size. With this, the company lost an approximate profit of 4.19 million pesos. The low utilization at the plant is mainly caused by two factors. These were the lengthy scheduling they use and the utilization of the fabricators at the installation site. To solve the lengthy scheduling of the company a new scheduling scheme is proposed based on the time study conducted by the group. In order to implement the proposed scheduling method a quota setting and review team is proposed. On the other hand, to solve the problems imposed by the utilization of the fabricators at the installation site contractual installers will be hired. With this, the fabrication days that were taken away due to unscheduled installation will be eliminated. The general objective of the study is to increase the utilization to 80%, which is the desired utilization of the company. However, based on historical data, 80% utilization was not achieved in any of the fabrication months in 1998 and 1999. With this, 70% utilization was established as the objective since this utilization was the highest attained by the fabrication plant. Through the solutions proposed, the utilization was increased to 73.51%. Furthermore, through a simulation it was found out that with the proposed system the company will be able to handle the other projects that were rejected in 1998 and 1999. These projects have a total contract price of 41,935,083 pesos.