Production Flow valuation through VSM modeling: An industry case study

A special combination of lean methodologies and modeling of industrial processes has been increasingly used in the last decade between University and Industry. With lower costs, knowledge in lean tools and innovation in simulation packages, manufacturing has improved its practices in the flow of the...

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Autores:
Santos Hernández, Andrés Felipe
Camargo Puentes, Angel David
Tipo de recurso:
Part of book
Fecha de publicación:
2017
Institución:
Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito
Repositorio:
Repositorio Institucional ECI
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.escuelaing.edu.co:001/3127
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.escuelaing.edu.co/handle/001/3127
https://repositorio.escuelaing.edu.co/
Palabra clave:
Gestión de la producción - Estudio de casos
Production management - Case Study
Metodología Lean - Estudio de caso
Lean Methodology - Case Study
Production Management - Case Study
Mapa de flujo de valor (VSM) - Estudio de caso
Value Stream Map (VSM) – Case Study
Lean
Lean logistics
CONWIP
Rights
openAccess
License
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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Summary:A special combination of lean methodologies and modeling of industrial processes has been increasingly used in the last decade between University and Industry. With lower costs, knowledge in lean tools and innovation in simulation packages, manufacturing has improved its practices in the flow of their processes detecting aggregate value. The research team describes a case in which a glove manufacturing production line and its Value Stream Mapping are simulated at the same time. The purpose of this work is to identify potential benefits such as reducing waste, improving lead time, resource optimization, reduced WIP and increasing throughput by simulation, applied to a real case industry. The modeling of the process and its VSM as a visual tool, highlight waste and hidden sources of the same through the variables and their behavior in the development of the simulation. Via a first simulation, the current process status is diagnosed. Then, using LEAN-manufacturing tools, a proposed VSM model is designed, which, through indicators and plots, shows the elimination of the causes of waste and improvements of this process.