Increasing the Efficiency of the Bottled Water Packaging Process Movement by Using the Kaizen Concept: Case Study Drinking Water Factory

Abstract

Drinking clean, sterile and safe water will result in good health. At this time, there is a tendency for
the demand of clean bottled water according to the increasing population. There are many bottled drinking
water entrepreneurs which are aware of the importance of production that can respond to the customers
need. Drinking Water Factory has the idea to increase the efficiency of the production process which has 6
steps as follows: filling water into empty bottles, closing the lid of the bottle and put into the cart,
transporting cart to the packaging room, arranging bottled water to the table, packaging wrapping, and air
blowing procedures. From the above processes, there was a problem in the transporting to the packaging
room process as it takes too much time. There are also redundant steps in transporting to the packaging
wrapping room and arranging the bottled water to the table. The staff has put the water bottle with no
systematic arrangement. Resulting in the process of arranging bottled water up the table taking too much
time to sort the researcher therefore has an idea to increase the efficiency of the bottled water
transportation process by using theKaizen concept: KAIZEN 7 QC Tool's and the PDCA quality management
cycle. By using of blocks and conveyor rollers to arrange the bottles orderly and easily, the transporting
process can significantly reduce work and process time.
The research result shows that the improvement of packaging transporting process by blocks and
conveyor rollers tools can improve the delay problem, reduce work, and reduce the time spent. The
original process time before the improvement was 371.91 seconds and the time spent after the
improvement reduced to 68.94 seconds or 81% less.