SIMULATION STUDY IN REORGANIZING DISPATCHING LAYOUT TO MINIMIZE DISPATCHING TIME

Reorganizing a layout entails a major adjustment to current layout and a thorough planning is essential before a new layout implementation. this study is to reorganize current layout at dispatching area of a manufacturing industry which produced apparel products. current arrangement at the dispatching area has brought to a poor efficiency rate of 48.74% that consumed 30.77 minutes to complete one dispatching job with a distance travel of 162.83 meters. witness simulation study was used in this study and facility planning process approach was applied in the experimental design to generate alternative layout. the results yielded that the alternative layout reduced the current time to 32.79% and consumed only 20.68 minutes to complete one dispatching job with a shorter distance travel of 109.44 meters.