Cooper TiresGuadalajara - Mexico 2017
Mapping of the production scheduling process throughout the factory.
Definition of opportunities for improving the productioin scheduling system, with 43 items for improvement
1 month consultancy in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, at Cooper Tires.
The purpose of the consultancy was to teach the management of production control in methodology, principles and production management, aiming to achieve objectives of better production flow and elimination of bottlenecks in production.
- A functional green tire storage layout was established in order to work the first in first out system.
- A computerized system FOR counting intermediate stocks through barcode established.
- Established a functional layout for intermediate stocks of by-products, from the compound mixing area to vulcanization.
- A system for identifying materials through functional labels has been established.
- Standardization of material length on spools.
- Deploy and teach the team how to calculate the economic lot for each product in each production area.
- Develop production scheduling methodology, reporting change times and maintenance times.
- Teach staff to plan review of all standard times, especially:
- Vulcanization
- Tire construction
- Calenders
- Extruders
- Mixers
- Create multifunctional teams that can make videos of type exchanges and study SET UP TIME REDUCTION.
- Train production managers and programmers in classical and modern theory of production programming.
Recommended Improvements
- SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION SCHEDULING
- INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
- PRODUCTION CONTROL FUNCTIONS RESTRUCTURING
- SIZING RATIONAL PRODUCTION LOT
- TO DETERMINE STANDARD TIMES FOR OPERATIONS
Expected Improvements Impact
My name is Cesar Brambilla Rojo, i am Mexican and i am married with a pretty wife and have 2 adult young sons consolidated in ther professional careers.
I am Industrial Chemical Engineer by Autónoma University of Mexico. I have 40 years of professional background full time perfomed in rubber companies. My longer professional experience was related to production scheduling and control. As you know, the production control is the company brain. We received Mr. Araújo as consultant here is Cooper Tires, Guadalara, Mexico. He revised our system from raw material through finished goods. He made several recommendation to us such as. Relayout the materials storage area, resizing all materials area and rational lot size for scheduling.
He enphatized the use of quality tools to manage the production control such as Six Sigm, Lean, Just in Time, etc. Once theese tools are applied to production control we can identify bottleneck and how to solve it. Mr. Araújo helped us to eliminate several types of waste, how to reduce labor time, defective material or bad identification of materials.
I would like to say thank you Mr. Araújo, but we are so far from each other, i would say thank you very much.