Abstract
Abstract The bakery industry has great economic and social importance in the city of Medellin; most of the companies are small with high levels of informality, low value added and productivity. Lean Manufacturing has become one of the most popular paradigms of waste disposal in the industrial sector and services, with great benefits of their practice on the improvement of the quality and organizational productivity. This work evaluates the level of implementation of the lean manufacturing techniques in the micro and small enterprises in Medellin, in the food sector. It was using diagnostic and follow-up tools with questionnaire to the production chief, which include 9 techniques or tools, and a variable of administration that allow organizations to a guide, to improve the current conditions of productivity. The main results show that the outstanding Lean practices are: PokaYoke, Kaizen and visual factory. However, for which the sector is considered to be of world class, the practices must be strengthened: VSM (generation of value), JIT (Production Flow) and ADMON (Administration). In addition, organizations must increase sales least 139, 20% to increase the level of efficiency of the sector, without changing the number of employees.
Highlights
Small and medium companies are a fundamental component in the Latin America industry, their importance is presented in different ways in different countries in the region, and this importance is related with the number of companies and the job creation and the product they manufacture (Sosa, 2014)
4.1 Lean Manufacturing tools implemented in smes bakery companies
It is important to show that hte 15.12% of the total of the smes companies, are located in the quadrant I or productive ones. This is they have a great level of implementation of lean techniques, but no one was located in the area empresa de clase mundial, world class
Summary
Small and medium companies (smes) are a fundamental component in the Latin America industry, their importance is presented in different ways in different countries in the region, and this importance is related with the number of companies and the job creation and the product they manufacture (Sosa, 2014). In Latin America and Europe, the smes represent the 30% and 60% of the (GDP) respectively but still exits a great gap between the productivity in smes in Received July 30, 2017 - Accepted May 24, 2018 Financial support: None. Europe and latin America, the average participation in exportations is just 5% of the smes in Latin America. If they cannot resolve this gap and improve their processes, managerial techniques, technology, the gap will persist in time
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