Aplicación de herramientas de manufactura esbelta para la disminución de desperdicios en el área de terminado de la producción de pieles

Abstract

This project is aimed at the leather industry that is positioned among the most important of Tungurahua Province in Tenería San José, a more than 40 years old company in the industry in Ambato City. Leather manufacturing involves complicated processes that require an adequate process to obtain quality garments. The project aims to eliminate bottlenecks and waste in the leather finishing process. This area has activities and operations such as: coloring, pressing, ironing, measuring and storage. This project development begins with times measurement to carry out a time and motion study of the operations for the production with the highest rotation within the company. Next, an initial diagnosis was made using tools such as value flow maps to eliminate activities that have not added value. The 5S methodology was implemented, starting from a current evaluation of the plant, the changes and actions required by this tool are applied and implementation is evaluated to perform a numerical analysis. Other tools are proposed in the project due to different factors, for example, for the existence of bottlenecks, line balancing is proposed. For the lack of control and production planning, a proposal is established with the Kanban tool. In addition, the application of visual control is proposed to have a better communication and facilitate the production flow in the plant. The research proposes possible formats for the implementation of each of these techniques and to standardize, as well as certain indicators that could be useful for the identification of improvement and production compliance.