Propuesta de mejoramiento del proceso en la línea de producción de refrescos mediante las herramientas de Lean Manufacturing en la Empresa Pasteurizadora la Mejor S.A. Cúcuta, Colombia.

Abstract

In the present work entitled Proposal to improve the process in the soft drink production line through Lean Manufacturing tools in the company Pasteurizadora La Mejor S.A, the objective of this project is to study each of the processes that involve the production line. of soft drinks, through the application of these tools such as SMED, 5’S, Kaizen and VSM to optimize production times to increase productivity. To carry out these tools, a diagnosis was first made through interviews that were carried out with the line managers to have a professional contribution to identify what shortcomings this production line is presenting, an Ishikawa diagram or cause and effect diagram was also made. to understand the problems that arise such as the lack of staff training, lack of order with each of the materials that arrive in the area, lack of space, cleanliness, lack of new machines to eliminate machine stops, among others, and so on. look for improvement opportunities. Once the problems were identified, a follow-up was carried out on each of the processes in the production of soft drinks, starting with the reception and storage of raw material, weighing of raw material, transportation and mixing of raw material. After making the diagnosis, the Lean Manufacturing tools were proposed because bottlenecks, production downtimes, waste were identified, optimizing cleaning times to increase production levels and one of the proposals is to execute the Lean Manufacturing tools as they are. the VSM, SMED, Kanban and 5’S As a final part, an economic study of each of the tools applied to the process was made, with the aim of proposing continuous improvement and finally it ends with the conclusions and recommendations.