Estudio de tiempos y movimientos para la mejora del proceso de lavado en la producción de jeans de la empresa Anderson jean’s

Abstract

This research project was carried out in ANDERSON JEAN'S company, specifically in the production area. Initially, an organization general description was made, with the purpose of evidencing production process and selecting the company’s main demanded service through the application of an ABC analysis. The main objective of this research is to propose tools to improve the company's production process in order to increase its productivity levels through the execution of a time and motion study to obtain a standard time for operations of production process and calculate productive capacity of current situation organization, in order to identify the stages or activities that can be improved. A relevant factor to define a process improvement is the reduction of waste found in the production line such as: waiting, unnecessary movements and over-processing; adopting 5S's, SMED and standardized work methodologies application. Finally, found results show a favorable scope for ANDERSON JEAN'S, since the cycle time of the process was reduced from 315.59 minutes to 291.32 minutes for a 70 garments batch, which was reflected in a 7.69% improvement in the entire production process for obtaining the BIG PANTS STON + SAN BLASS + MOTOR. In addition, when analyzing the two situations, it is clearly shown that the company improves its economic income by $939.55 per month, which represents an increase in the company's income of 6.27%.