Abstract

Factory Layout can be defined as how to arrange the factory facilities on production floor to keep the production flow run smoothly. This case study was on production floor of PT.Cokro, that have layout type was process layout. Process Layout as the one of layout type that arrange any kind of machine or other production facilities that has same type on one place. With this type of layout, company has many advantages like flexibility on production process that has high variation. On the other hand, it also has disadvantage effect, especially on high cost of material handling. To reduce cost of material handling, company should redesign their production floor layout. Cellular Manufacturing System as application of Group Technology can arrange the production facilities that requires high variation process on part family product on the manufacture cell layout. With aplicating Cellular Manufacturing System, it will be more flexible to arrenge the facilities. Beside that, the company also can figure out the reducing cost of material handling and the length itself. Based on the data processing, using heuristics algorithm approach which is Bond Energy Algorithm (BEA), Rank Order Clustering (ROC), dan Rank Order Clustering 2 (ROC 2) we can conclude that BEA is the most suitable method to use, by classifying 6 machines and 6 components in to 2 manufacturing cell, which are the first cell (M4, M6, M1, M2, P2, P5, P6, P1) and second cell (M4, M6, M1, M3, M5, P3, P4). With this redesign, we can reduce the length of material handling almost 428,06 m and the cost of material handling almost Rp. 2.111.316,058 / month. ©2006 IEEE.