doi: 10.7763/IJET.2023.V15.1242
Production Model under the Integrated Approach of Lean Manufacturing and SLP to Increase Efficiency in A Company of the Metal Mechanic Sector
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Juan Carlos Quiroz-Flores
- the Universidad de Lima, Perú
Abstract
Metal mechanics plays a relevant role in the entireproductive structure of the economy since it is an indispensablesupplier of capital goods such as equipment, infrastructure,spare parts, and machines. However, the lack of efficientproduction processes, the high rate of defective products, andunnecessary routes in factories and production workshops aresome of the frequent problems that companies in this area havethat directly affect their productivity. Consequently, extremeroutes and the profiling area have been identified as the mainbottlenecks in the production process, impacting productionefficiency. Therefore, the main objective of this case study is todemonstrate how the implementation of Lean tools has managedto increase the efficiency of the process for the production ofthermoacoustic panels, reducing unnecessary routes anddefective products. The proposed model comprises Lean toolssuch as the standardization of work and the 5S methodology andthe Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) was also applied to carryout the redistribution of activities. A simulation was carried outin the Arena software to validate the improvement proposal’sresults. The results obtained from the simulation were anincrease of 19.24% in the overall efficiency of the process, adecrease of 42.4% in hours lost due to defective products, and a26.7% reduction in downtime.
Keywords
- Lean manufacturing
- layout
- SystematicLayout Planning (SLP)
- 5S
- standardized work
- metalworking
- expanded polystyrene
- manufacturing industry
How to Cite
Marcelo Augusto Barreto-Guillen, Mauricio Gonzales-Sassarini, and Juan Carlos Quiroz-Flores, "Production Model under the Integrated Approach of Lean Manufacturing and SLP to Increase Efficiency in A Company of the Metal Mechanic Sector," International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 172-178, 2023. https://doi.org/ 10.7763/IJET.2023.V15.1242
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