Optimización de la línea de producción a través de la metodología KAIZEN en la Empresa Rio Textil

Abstract

This document describes a proposal for continuous improvement in the company RIO TEXTIL, using the Kaizen methodology and its tools such as the PHVA cycle and 5 "s" methodology, in order to implement mechanisms that constitute the improvement of the production process and reduce unnecessary actions, movements, times and transportation. Through the planned visits to the company, several data collections was carried out in each work station with the different tools to be used, having a follow-up of the processes of the garments to be studied, T-shirts and shorts, being those the products with the highest demand in the company, with the result that it was identified that in the area of cutting and laying of fabric and in station 3 bottlenecks and delays were generated, through the initial diagnosis and improvement, results were obtained with a reduction of production time of 350 minutes in the process of the T-shirts and 171 minutes in the process of the shorts. A new production module was enabled to allow the operators to comply with the garment manufacturing process in a better way, avoiding changes between modules. These improvements led to an increase in productivity of 87% and 27% efficiency in the T-shirt process and 33% and 25% efficiency in the shorts process. As a recommendation it is made available to the manager, to make use of the implemented proposal, for the improvement in the productive process of the company, due to the lack of experience of the workers, it is necessary a constant training for their better performance and thus achieve the desired goals.