ABSTRACT
Since China’s accession to the WTO, the domestic furniture industry is faced with good developing opportunities, and has become the world's major exporter of furniture. However, China's furniture industry is huge, but not powerful. The rapid growth of furniture production these years mainly depends on the new human and financial resources, rather than raising the level of business productivity.
How to improve the labor productivity of China's furniture industry, and enhance competitiveness in the international market, is the major problem that the enterprises are facing currently. As a matter of fact, IE is the most effective solution to this problem. It is the organic integration of technology and management, and particularly emphasis on its integrity. In this paper, trying to use IE’s most commonly used and most basic technique ---work study, to optimize and improve the production process in Haining Starcope Furniture Co., Ltd. It focuses on using the theory of method study, using procedure analysis to solve the unreasonable analysis in the operating arrangements, using work analysis to arrange the suitable combine between person and machine, and also using motion analysis to improve the action and seek the "economic action". Then make the standard working time scientifically according to work measurement. Trying to make the integrated system, which is consist of people, materials, equipment, energy, information and other factors, to achieve reasonable deploy, working coordinately, give full play to their respective performance and ultimately improve the productivity, reduce costs and achieve the best overall effectiveness.
