Propuesta del diseño de un plan de mejora basado en el método Lean Manufacturing para el área de producción de cajas de la empresa C.I. Uniban S.A.

Abstract

The next degree project is a proposal for an improvement plan made to the production area of the box factory of the company C.I. Uniban S.A. to its production process of manufacturing cardboard boxes from paper corrugation, in order to propose an improvement plan to reduce production costs due to high levels of waste and downtime, based on the methodology lean manufacturing and its tools, for which a diagnosis was made that showed the current state of production, by collecting information from the different areas of the factory and the quantitative study in the diagnosis, the types of waste, critical points , causes and their participation in the process, with the information obtained, the application of tools such as Ishikawa diagram, pareto, flow diagrams, among others, allowed the analysis of the problems found, in order to propose and design the actions of improvement that would reduce the levels of waste and production costs, the cost benefit of the project was made with which the impl Implementation of the improvement plan, demonstrating the profit obtained by the company after the investment made to carry out the development of the project.