Enhancing productivity of ethiopian footwear industry by integrating of work measurement with line balancing techniques

Subject Areas : Design of Experiment

Moti Melkamu ^{1 *} , gezahegn Dadi ² , Temesgen Getachew ³

1 - Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2 - Lecturer, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
3 - Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Received: 2022-02-25 Accepted : 2025-01-15

Keywords: Enhancing Productivity, footwear industries, work measurement, Line balance.,

Abstract :

The footwear industry is one of the most economic sectors, which should be given attention for the development of the Ethiopian country and it needs to enhance its productivity by reducing the major factors that affect its productivity. In this paper, the major factors raised are high cycle time, bottleneck process, less line efficiency, less output per day, less labor productivity, and distance movement of workers. Those factors are reduced and enhanced productivity through work measurement and line balance. The result of the study is increased line efficiency of the cutting, stitching, and lasting and finishing section to 80.76%, 76.8%, and 75.50% and output per day in pairs are 714, 625.3, and 623 with the increased labor productivity per day in pair is to 34, 12.3, and 12.7 respectively. The enhanced productivity of finished footwear products is to 623 pairs with additional production of 160 pairs of shoes per day and actual finished shoe output performance is increased by 23%.

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