LEAN MANUFACTURING TOOLS FOR PRODUCTIVE IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTION PROCESS OF SMOKED CHICKENS

The main objective of this work is to demonstrate the applicability of the tools of Lean Manufacturing in the smoked chicken elaboration process in the Valtellina company of Píllaro canton, identifying the problems, quantifying the main waste of resources in order to improve the flow of process, eliminating those tasks that do not add value and allow it to adapt to market demands through process control tools such as the Kanban, which will allow me to level the production load and issue production orders. Lean Manufacturing a new production philosophy defines how to improve and optimize a production system focusing on identifying and eliminating all types of "waste", defined as those processes or activities that use more resources than strictly necessary. With this background the company Valtellina del Canton Píllaro province of Tungurahua has decided to implement the Lean Manufacturing methodology in the production line of smoked chicken since it is aware of the advantages it offers by establishing a takt time before the implementation of 6.4 min / chicken now with 3 min / chicken, decreasing activities that do not add value by 35%, improving with standardized work at 76%, improvement of the production process by 68%. The improvement achieved in the production of smoked chicken was evaluated; By eliminating lean waste the production time was reduced by 22.8 minutes. In addition, the percentage of order fulfilment with Lean manufacturing in the company was increased to 73%.