Cycle Time Improvement for Soldering Process on the Assembly Process of RFID Card

Abstract

Teaching Factory Manufacturing of Electronics (TFME) is facility of Politeknik Negeri Batam that designed according to the real industry orientation in Batam. TFME already had mass producing RFID Card for student ID card Politeknik Negeri Batam with production output is 400 units per week. Several items need to be considered during mass production which is quality, quantity (output) and production costs. Profit will be achieved when we produced unit with high output and low cost. Based on the analysis and collecting data showing that Soldering Antenna on the assembly of RFID Card is the bottle neck process with high of cycle time consuming 180 sec/unit.