Facility Layout Improvement in Shipyard Support Industries with Systematic Layout Planning to Increase Productivity

Material handling is about availability, movement, and control of material at the right amount, condition, time, sequence, and place. PT. Dua Sahabat Group is a company that is included in the shipbuilding support industry, where currently there is inefficiency in material handling in terms of the layout of production facilities. One of the efforts to increase productivity at PT. Dua Sahabat Group is by reducing the material path distance in the production process, especially for three products, namely ship steel doors, ship cabin doors and ship windows. This study discusses re-planning the layout of production facilities at PT Dua Sahabat Group by using the Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) method. The significance of the research is that the resulting facility layout provides solutions for material movement to support smooth production by shortening the distance between work stations, which means shortening production time and saving costs. The SLP approach has resulted in a decrease in the production line distance of 70.3% for the ship's steel door, 68.4% for the ship's cabin door, and 73.0% for the ship's window.