A system study on the production department of Stellar Textile Finishing Corporation

• Main Authors: Macasil, Efren Armando M., Tay, Anthony S., Vergara, Norbertson M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2002
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/12054
• Institution: De La Salle University

Executive Summary. Stellar Textile Finishing Corporation is a servicing company that deals with coloring, bleaching and finishing of fabrics particularly knitted and woven. The Bleaching-Finishing takes up 56.50% and the remaining 43.50% is from the Dyeing-Finishing. All data used in this study were supplied by the company and provided data from January 2000 up to July 2001, a total of 18 months. At present, the company is experiencing total rework of 6%, which exceeds the allowable company standards of 3%. The bulk of the rework comes from both machine related problems and worker related problems, which take up 48.91% and 45.45% respectively. The company incurred costs amounting to P 1,804,569.48 for re-processing the fabrics and P 24,265.44 for raw material wastes. The proposed solutions to the problem of rework are 1) Preventive Maintenance for the machines in the production area, and 2) Provide Booklet of Standards wherein process flows, standards in temperature, mixing and ingredients are indicated and to be followed by the workers involved. Actual implementation was used in order to validate the proposed booklet of standards, while simulation was used for the proposed preventive maintenance scheduling. A total of 64.23% were reduced for the reworks caused by the machines following the proposed preventive maintenance and 100% reduction for the worker related reworks. With these resulting factors, the total rework percentage amounted to 1.38%, which is below company standards of 3% and would have a net present value of P 505,464.84 for the next five years.