Estudios y diseño de un taller de mantenimiento de equipo caminero en la empresa Workconstruc Companía Limitada.

Abstract

This research work is about “The Study and Design of a Maintenance Workshop for the road Equipment of Workconstruc Limited Company”, whose target is to have the mechanical maintenance of their vehicles to ensure optimum service that allows reduce time and cost The applicant company to conduct the study and design of the Maintenance Workshop owns heavy machinery to be used in any type of construction. Therefore, it needs to have an ideal spacious place to offer the corresponding maintenance to its road equipment. The location should consider a suitable distribution of the working areas to carry out the respective verification processes and continuous maintenance of each one the company’s machines. The study consists of the road equipment maintenance itself. For this reason, it has been necessary to get acquainted with concepts employed in the different maintenance tasks carried out in the workshops. Within the contents of this work information will be displayed. The information shown will be about machinery descriptions, kinds of maintenance, road equipment maintenance plan,road are inside the workshop, service periods, costs relationships, and finally, safety and environmental precautions. Concerning road equipment, the work to be done is specified. First a diagnosis of the equipment in charge of the company is prepared. This includes all the tools, replacement parts, filters, and oils needed to do maintenance according to a maintenance chronogram. It is important to keep track of everything by using exclusive maintenance forms (attached at the end of this thesis). It is important to mention that safety is a great issue to be considered in a road equipment maintenance workshop. The most common risks are indicated for each maintenance task. It is necessary to have preventive measures. Finally, this work is a guide to optimize or design an ideally distributed workshop whose aim is to improve processes in order to be more productive.