Perancangan Ulang Tata Letak Fasilitas dengan Metode Ant Colony Optimization

Abstract

Kurnia Steel MSME is a business engaged in the production of furniture made from aluminum and wood. The issue faced by this MSME is the occurrence of by-passing, cross-movement, and back-tracking on the production floor. This condition arises due to the arrangement of workstations not following the production process sequence and being placed far apart, resulting in high material flow transfer distances. The aim of this study is to design a layout that follows the production process sequence with shorter material flow transfer distances compared to the current condition using the ant colony optimization method. The results of the study using the ant colony optimization method yielded a proposed layout design with a total material transfer moment that is 276 m/week shorter than the actual layout. The selected proposed layout (3rd iteration) also no longer exhibited any issues of by-passing, cross-movement, or back-tracking