Abstract
The interest of the present investigation was carried out along with an electronic branch that is a global leader in electronic engineering components, network solutions, marine telecommunication systems and consumer goods in the city of Tijuana, Baja California Mexico.
In a world where business is more competitive, organizations aim to increase their productivity at a lower cost, without affecting the quality of their products, or the health of their workers, so that the economic profit margin can be increased and be able to face the competition. Not only can new technologies improve quality and productivity, this can also be achieved by learning to use the machines at hand effectively. For this reason, in the company under study, the department of electrical connectors is intended to improve productivity with connector assembly machines that are in four parts.
In addition to the fact that there is a problem of absenteeism and rotation of the staff with those of entry-level recruits, for this reason the management of this department is analyzing the way to invest capital for the improvement of the connector assembly machines and increase the capacity, in such way to eliminate the night shift.
Therefore, the company’s main objective is to increase production capacity and thereby improve the efficiency indicators of connector assembly machines in the department of electrical connectors by 25%. For this purpose, the 3 main approaches of the organization are covered, which are: safety, quality and service (for financial projects), using tools found in the plant, such as CNC, lathe and milling machines, statistical software, ergonomics, CAD and engineering work, to identify relevant information that improves the efficiency in the process of said machinery.
This project is an explanatory study, since it provides a profound response on the modification of the connector assembly machine. The method used is inductive since a working hypothesis was formulated and tested. Regarding data collection techniques, different methods were implemented, among which are: time-taking, route method, application of the 5s methodology and design of experiments.
According to the results, an increase in the capacity of connector assembly machines was achieved by up to 59%, that is, 500 more pieces per hour.
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Sanchez-Matute, M.R., Zayas-Marquez, C., Solis-Quinteros, M., Avila-Lopez, L.A. (2020). Improvement of Efficiency in the Productivity of an Aerospace, Maritime and Military Company in Tijuana, Baja California; Mexico. In: Karwowski, W., Goonetilleke, R., Xiong, S., Goossens, R., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1215. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51549-2_56
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