Investigación del incremento de productividad en la fábrica de pernos en la empresa Galo G. Orbea O. Cía. Ltda. mediante el análisis de disponibilidad en las etapas de su proceso productivo.

Abstract

This research is called “Investigation of the increase in the productivity in a bolt factory in the enterprise Galo G. Orbea O. Cía. Ltda. through the availability analysis of the stages in the production process.” The investigation lasted 5 months. In this time, the first step to follow was to evaluate the current state of the company. After that, the availability analysis method was applied in the four existing systems. Through block diagrams, the schemes of the systems were showed. This action helped to find the causes why the equipment was not working properly as well as its tolerance for unavailable. The availability analysis was proposed by the engineer Eduardo Hernandez, who is a professor at the Mechanic Faculty, this proposal is an excellent maintenance management tool to find out what can be enhanced within the production systems. Therefore, after applying this method, it was possible to state some strategies in order to increase the availability in the serial systems and its production. The conclusion of this research is to highlight the importance of visualizing the production systems through the block diagrams. This schema should be well structured because this will be the result of the operational context that every system owns. The conditions which most affect the stages of the production systems are the operations and maintenance. The suggestion for this company is to attend to workshops constantly, especially for the maintenance and technical area. Another suggestion is making research with different systems form the ones mentioned in this investigation in order to improve the availability as a goal within the operational management and maintenance.