Estudio de tiempos y movimientos para la mejora de la producción en la empresa textil Ram Jeans

Abstract

Time and motion study is a tool that, when implemented, provides benefits such as the reduction of execution times of the activities and the increase in production in the areas of industrial manufacturing, basis that characterizes this methodology is the elimination of waste and increase production, considering that into organizations problems occur frequently and activities flow tends to be interrupted, that’s why it is necessary to standardize and reduce waste generated. The textile company "Ram Jeans" that is dedicated to the industrial production of jean pants, saw fit to improve the deficiencies that it has regarding disorder, poor control of waste, times, waiting, interruptions, transportation and unnecessary movements that are restrictions for the productivity. This research project objective of proposing lean manufacturing tools and an improvement plan for company's production benefit, reducing waste, which after analysis was identified as: waiting, unnecessary transport and inventories. Collection of information with surveys application, interviews and the study of times as a first analysis, established the current productive situation, areas, threads, activities, resources, etc., later the diagrams and manufacturing tools helped to identify activities that restrict the flow of the process and the production capacity in the company. To recognize the waste of the manufacturing process, VSM map was applied, through this tool the information corresponding to the activities that add and those that do not add value was obtained, in addition, operational tools were applied to improve the performance of the company. SMED implemented the reduction of times regarding waiting and unnecessary transport, 5S methodology maintained order and cleanliness of the workstations. Reduction of times in clothing area had a decrease from 7.1 minutes to 5.03 minutes, which is equivalent to an improvement of 29.15%, in addition, its production capacity increased from 1,248 u/month to a production of 1,440 u/month, equivalent to an improvement of 13.33% complying with the proposal to improve production.