Waste Elimination Model Based on Lean Manufacturing and Lean Maintenance to Increase Efficiency in the Manufacturing Industry

Abstract

This article focuses on the low efficiency of a production process in a manufacturing company. The study aims to integrate and model different tools with greater efficiency to avoid high maintenance costs of production equipment and high implementation costs. Thus, this article presents a waste reduction model intended to reduce setup time and develop an efficient maintenance management system to increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). We validated the model in a Peruvian tire manufacturing company and achieved positive outcomes such as a 13% increase in the OEE score and a 22.5% setup time reduction. All this entailed an increase in the component changeover capacity, the outsourcing of 37 activities, and an 80% increase in the knowledge index of the operators involved in the proposal.