Aplicación de la metodología SMED en los procesos de conformado de la Empresa ECUAMATRIZ Cía. Ltda.

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The present investigation is focused on the application of the methodology Single Minute Exchange of Dies or better known as (SMED), for the reduction of times in the preparation of the machinery and the influence that it presents on the size of the lot, so that the company in study Ecuamatriz Cia. Ltda. can diminish the time of change of matrix in the processes of Conformed and have more time to produce the demanded products.

The development of the project consists initially in the analysis of the current situation in the change of matrixes, for which the product that presents the greater demand has been identified by means of the methodology ABC and this way to know which is the product with more participation in the market and to focus the development of the work in the same one, in addition a study of Times and Movements for the processes of change of matrix was established in order to know the activities that intervene and with the times in which they are handled for the preparation of the machinery, also for the productive processes and knowledge of the capacities of production of the area of Conformed. On the other hand, VSM Flow Charts are established to widely identify improvement opportunities and eliminate waste from the die change processes.

Finally, the methodology mentioned above is applied through its different stages that lead to the improvement of the external activities through the development of 5's in the tools of the Forming area and internal activities through the execution of parallel activities. In addition, the results obtained in the development of the research work are shown through a global summary of the values calculated before and after its application, of which the percentage of average reduction of 66.29 percent in machinery preparation time, and the average improvement of 28.91 percent in production capacity can be highlighted. Likewise, a simulation model is presented in the FlexSim software of the forming processes where the results found during the development of the investigation are represented.