Propuesta de reducción de tiempo en la elaboración de conservas de atún en la empresa XYZ aplicando herramientas de Lean Manufacturing.

Abstract

This research project was developed to analyze the canned tuna cartoning process and in turn, propose Lean Manufacturing tools that lead to a reduction of time and costs for the company XYZ. We worked with cost and time data from the stages of the company's cartoning process to identify waste, and qualitatively, we conducted interviews with area leaders and operators in the maintenance and cartoning areas. Also, a review of internal and external factors of the company was made to know the current environment to be studied. The Value Stream Mapping (VSM) tool was applied, which represents an analysis of the production flow that provided more specific information about the incidences of nonconforming product costs and times found in the current cartoning process. After the graphic analysis of the process, proposals were determined to solve the impact of these variables to reduce the duration of the stages of the process under study, as well as to generate long-term savings for the company.