Open AccessMelhoria na flexibilização e aumento de produtividade de uma linha de montagem de uma empresa do setor de autopeças através da alteração do arranjo físico do processo
Author(s) -
Juliane Ayumi Komiya,
João Nazareno ato Quaresma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
research, society and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2525-3409
DOI - 10.33448/rsd-v10i16.23403
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , productivity , restructuring , production (economics) , production line , manufacturing engineering , business , computer science , operations management , agricultural science , mathematics , engineering , environmental science , economics , marketing , statistics , finance , macroeconomics
Due to the constant competitiveness among the multinational companies nowadays, these companies intensely seek agility and flexibility in their production processes, so that they can respond quickly to variations in their demands, eliminating waste and making their processes leaner and more competitive. Following this trend, the present work had as a proposal and purpose to restructure the layout of a conventional assembly line (linear layout) for U-shaped manufacturing cells, and it is intended in this way to obtain flexibility improvement and productivity increase of the process. The applied methodology was developed from bibliographical research and analysis of the current situation, where a mapping of the processes was done in order to identify the wastes that had a negative impact on the production line. As for the factors that had a negative impact to the process, it was found that there was a need to change the layout of the production line. As the main results related to the restructuring, there is an increase of 6% in productivity per person, a reduction of approximately 30% in the movements of operators in the process, and an improvement in the flexibility of the assembly line, adapting it according to the variation in customer demand.