Lean Manufacturing Approach to Minimize Waste in The Process of Sorting Palm Oil Using the Value Stream Mapping Method

This research uses lean manufacturing approach and mapping the production line of a product which includes material and information from each work activity using value stream mapping method to minimize waste. Problems faced by oil palm companies can be seen in more detail in the sorting process. The company does not realize that there are many ways of working that can be improved to become more effective and efficient, from checking to grouping the quality standards of palm oil. The sorting activities are carried out from weighing FFB to selecting the quality of oil palm. The results of this study showed that the value-added activity was 69.9920863 minutes with a process cycle efficiency rate of 27.392122%. After repairs were made, it was found that the activity of moving the palm fruit to the sorting station, the palm fruit waiting to be unloaded from the truck, the palm fruit being unloaded and sorted from the truck in the palm sorting process is an activity that has no added value, so it needs to be improved. The improvement results show an increase in process cycle efficiency to 46.909592%.