OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCTION LAYOUT IN WELDING CELL FOR STAINLESS STEEL PIPES IN INDUSTRIAL REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS

Artigo de um mestrando em Engenharia da Universidad de Taubaté

Abstract

When analyzed from a productivity perspective, variations in a physical layout in manufacturing environments allow strategic aspects for optimizing work, providing opportunities to reduce waste in movement and reduce the lead time of activities that do not add value to the products and services performed by the industrial organization. Successful production systems must include a critical and thorough analysis from the design stage to their implementation in the factories, and it is essential to foresee and visualize improvement processes that add productive and financial value to minimizing operating costs. The objective of this research is to identify and point out the operational gains compared to the improvements implemented, that is, the previous and the current. As a methodology, tools traditionally applied and disseminated by the Toyota production system and their updates were used, focusing on the eight wastes and other tools that comprise them, researched in theoretical frameworks and case studies with themes alluding to the subject. The result was the application of these tools and their impacts on process optimization. It is concluded that there was success in reducing operating costs after implementing the improvements in the Company's production line.