Redistribución de instalaciones para la mejora de la productividad en la planta de producción de la empresa Calzado Gusmar

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to present a proposal for the physical redistribution of the facilities within the footwear company GUSMAR, this proposal allows to improve the productivity of the plant, removing useless distances and optimizing the available space. For the development of the project, three fundamental stages were considered: in the first stage, information was gathered on the current conditions of the production process; in the second stage, tools and methodologies for the distribution of facilities were used; and finally, the model of the current distribution and the proposed distribution were simulated using FlexSim software, in order to compare and select the alternative that would increase productivity. To generate the redistribution alternatives, the systematic distribution planning (SLP) method was used, then two alternatives were proposed and evaluated by means of the load-distance analysis, where it was determined that alternative 2 is optimal, since it reduces the distance traveled by the material by 26.75%, equivalent to 91,014.80 meters. And with the objective of reducing the longest duration times in the processes of trimming and assembly (bottleneck) where a flexible distribution in those workstations was carried out The distribution proposal was validated by analyzing the indicators obtained in the FlexSim software simulation of the entire footwear manufacturing line, where it was shown that this proposal generates an increase in productivity of 0.06%, or the same from 0.63 to 0.67 pairs/hour of work, or the increase from 625 pairs of shoes to 667, without generating an additional cost by redistributing the facilities of the GUSMAR footwear production plant.