| Performance and productivity of production line system are very influenced by facility layout planning. Facilities composition which is appropriate with flow of materials between departments, certainly would sustain the continuity of the system. PT. FSCM Manufacturing Indonesia is one of the subsidiaries of PT. Astra Otoparts Tbk. which manufactures motorcycle chains. Composition of the current layout facilities on the 1st Plant has not fully optimalized well and indeed has a potential possibility to be developed further in the future. This statement is supported from the result of existing MHPS which gives Rp 1,047,678.49 for total cost of material handling, 463.1 metres for total distance, and 1,617.24 minutes for total time of material movements. Also, the total area of empty spaces that can be utilized by the company in the currenpt layout is only 89,74 m2. As for the purposes of this research are: analyzing the performance of current layout, developing new layout designs to improve the current one, and comparing the current with proposed improvement layouts. The process of designing proposed layouts is done by using improvement-based algorithm (CRAFT) and hybrid/composite algorithm (BLOCPLAN) that both of the algorithms need same inputs, which are: current facility layout and the flow of material. Based from the results of MHPS calculation for both proposed layouts, show that layout from BLOCPLAN algorithm gives maximal reduction to the total cost of material handling so that the amounts will be decreased to Rp 1,022,419.91 (reducing 2,4% from total cost of current layout), 434.62 metres for total distance (reducing 6.2%), and 1,506.23 minutes for total time of material movements (reducing 6.86%). As for the total area of empty spaces, BLOCPLAN layout gives more 21m2 extra spaces than the current layout. |