Estudio de tiempos y movimientos para el mejoramiento de los procesos de producción de la empresa Carrocerías Los Andes

Abstract

After pandemic that paralyzed Ecuador in 2020. Carrocerias Los Andes suffered a transformation process in its facilities and work conditions, which has led to various deficiencies, such as improvised work, orders delay. standard production times ignorance, and, generally, organization low productivity. Therefore, it was proposed to develop a time and motion study to get a production processes improvement.

A documentary and field were used in the methodology. Where. bibliographic review. interview, observation and recruit were used to collect the data on operational processes. At the same time, timekeeper time study was used to establish standard time for the elaboration for the flagship product and the circuit diagram to analyze the micro movements of bottleneck processes.

Thus, it was concluded that production macroprocess is made up of Preparation of material. Structured. Reception and preparation of chassis. Marriage. Lined. Painting and Finishes processes, which are executed in the different physical areas of the plant. Besides this, a total standard time of 732 hours. 29 minutes and 21 seconds was established for the production of the "Sbelto-City-Urban" urban bus, under current conditions. In this sense, Phase 2 Structured and Exterior-interior Putty were identified as bottlenecks, therefore, two proposals for improvement were raised.

First, the Manual of Processes and Procedures that characterizes and specifies all the operational, strategic and support processes that the organization needs to correct 77.78% of its deficiencies. Second, the application of equipment, materials and labor in the two main bottlenecks detected, to reduce total standard time for the production of "Sbelto-Ciudad-Urbano" by 115 hours. 39 minutes and 49 seconds.