Improvement of soil mechanics laboratory processes applying Lean Manufacturing tools
Abstract
Currently, productivity is an essential tool in organizations, this is achieved with the improvement of processes through the use of various tools, philosophies and engineering methodologies available in an open manner. The lack of productivity results in losses that have an impact on high costs and low income and therefore few or no profits. There are techniques that can be used by small and micro enterprises (SMES) to make better use of available resources. This paper proposes the use of Lean Manufacturing tools such as 5'S, spaghetti diagram, Kanban boards among others to optimize processes in a soil mechanics laboratory, where the quality of various materials used in construction is analyzed. During the implementation of the tools, work items were redistributed, and control processes was improved. As a result, a 44.88% reduction was obtained in the movements required by the personnel to carry out various activities, 32.37% of the work area that was wasted was released, which allowed execute activities in parallel, improving the workflow and reduced waiting. By implementing Kanban boards, control and organization was achieved, making easier the management of the laboratory staff to follow up on the processes, carrying out the activities in an orderly manner.
Downloads
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
In order to promote the development and dissemination of research in education in Latin America, the Ibero-American Journal for Educational Research and Development (RIDE) adhered to the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which is why it is identified as a Open access publication. This means that any user can read the complete text of the articles, print them, download them, copy them, link them, distribute them and use the contents for other purposes. Creative Cummons licenses allow users to specify the rights to use an open access journal available on the Internet in such a way that users know the rules of publication. Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions: Authors they keep the author's rights and give the magazine the right of the first publication, with the work registered with the attribution license of Creative Commons, which allows third parties to use the published material whenever they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this The authors can make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (eg, include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that The work was published for the first time in this magazine. Authors are allowed and recommended to publish their work. low on the Internet (for example on institutional or personal pages) before and during the review and publication process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and to a greater and faster dissemination of the published work
