4M 1E production process management and 5S core activity management Case study: Yakult (Thailand) Company Limited, Ayutthaya Branch

Abstract

The content of this research has the objectives to study about the increasing of the products as the demand of consumers and to avoid the loss of the product. The process of this studying is to monitor the quantity of the product for each 1 hour of producing. There is 40,000 bottles for an hour. Meaning that 1 bottle takes 0.8 second. To gain more the productivity, reduce from 0.8 to 0.5 second and the machine will rest every 15 minutes so, the machine could work 8 hours per day. The research revealed that: The problems are 1) milk overload, too much of milk made the running machine had to be stopped because it need to be checked for the milk then it waste of time of producing. 2) To seperate the waste and get rid of smells. The improvement by use the 4M 1E and the activities of 5ส to solve the problem and improve the productivity. It revealed that the result of improvement by record 1 month of productivity. Before improvememt we gain 40,000 bottles and after we gain 50,000 bottles or 250% The result of loss product by record 1 month is 28 bottles before and 12 after or 57.14%