Materials Supply System Analysis Under Simulation Scenarios in a Lean Manufacturing Environment

 

J. A. Jiménez-García*¹, S. Téllez-Vázquez², J. M. Medina-Flores³, H. H. Rodríguez-Santoyo⁴ and J. Cuevas-Ortuño⁵

 

¹ Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial Tecnológico Nacional de México Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya. * alfredo.jimenez@itcelaya.edu.mx

² Administración y Gestión de Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas Universidad Politécnica de Guanajuato.

³ Ingeniería en Energía Universidad Politécnica de Guanajuato Cortazar Guanajuato, México.

⁴ Ingeniería en Energía Universidad Politécnica de Guanajuato Cortazar Guanajuato, México.

⁵ Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial y de Sistemas Tecnológico de Monterrey, campus Guadalajara Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.

 

Abstract

Identifying the most efficient supply system for a company working under Lean Manufacturing practices was possible with the support of this work. Promodel software was used to develop simulation model depicting a constant velocity joints (CVJ) production system, where two different supply methods were assessed. According to results herein obtained, better performance is achieved under random supply method in comparison with a clustering supply method. The company's goal is to keep 1% losses due to lack of material. In the actual process, this essential parameter was reduced from 2.73% to 1.177%, if random supply method is properly implemented.

Keywords: Supply system, lean manufacturing, simulation.

 

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Acknowledgments

This project was performed thanks to support given by Conacyt through scholarship No. 228973 for funding my specialization studies and we wish to thank CIATEC, where training about industrial engineering topics were given by expert personal.

 

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