Propuesta de mejora del rendimiento y tiempo set up de la línea de producción de flejes para una empresa de soluciones de acero de construcción

Abstract

The intention of this research project is to make a proposal to reduce the set up time by taking advantage of the principles of the Lean Manufacturing tool. The continuous improvement proposal was made in a steel solutions plant for construction, with its Slitter 2 production line. In this company, the set up procedures and the current condition of the maintenance performed on the machines were analyzed. The main objective was to optimize the set up time. Necessary information was collected from management, supervisor and operators. In the first objective, process data was obtained through measurements, which was captured in a process diagram. The information obtained was tabulated in order to find the bottleneck in the strapping production process. The second specific objective was the reduction of set up time, in this case it was necessary to use the SMED methodology.