Enhancement of herbal medicine production efficiency in Thai traditional medicine clinic by Clean Technology application : Case study of Tha Sae hospital in Chumphon province.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to enhance the effi-ciency of herbal medicine production using clean technology in turmeric herbal capsule at Thai traditional medicine clinic of Tha Sae hospital, Chumphon province. This study focused on the collection of general resources used such as raw materials, products and worker practice-behavior. The results showed the quality of raw materials was not following to the requirement guideline and the improper practice-behavior of workers. According to losing causes and problems brainstorming and problem analysis were discussed among stakeholder leading to improve the production process. The first recommended option was the checking quality of raw materials, which could reduce the amount of waste 1.50 kilograms/1 batch. The second was the improvement of workers behavior and their practices. It found that cleaning process of raw material was modified and adjusted by washing in the sink instead using water flow. This could reduce water consumption by percentage 80. While controlling drying duration of raw materials from 24 hours to 16 hours could reduce electricity consumption by 18.18 Units/1 batch and drying duration of powder raw meterials from 8 hours to 1 hour could reduce electricity consumption by 15.90 Units/1 batch. The total amount of all resources savings of 7,399.44 bath/year.