Propuesta de red de equipos Kaizen con base a la metodología Lean Manufacturing en la empresa Géneros Ecuatorianos Ecuagenera Cía. Ltda.

Abstract

The company Ecuagenera Cía. Ltda., dedicated to the cultivation and commercialization of ornamental flowers at a national and international level, has an organization chart where the company's departments are defined based on the relevance of the tasks carried out in each area of work, and the organization is subject to carry out their work through the decisions of highlevel managers, that is how the company operates under a centralized methodology. In addition to the production area, there are the Marketing, Research and Human Resources Department. This project seeks the inclusion of the company's departments as an organized group where the management of work groups is standard and the activities are subject to specific groups within the organization. Through the Kaizen Philosophy, the project will be enriched when collaborators apply in all areas of his life continuous improvement, taking into account first the interpersonal relationship within the company, applying values that support personal as well as social growth, as a second factor the standardization of processes and finally reaching autonomy to the board through the induction of a single group leader. Kaizen's proposal is the continuous improvement of activities and processes with the aim of having a standardized company that continuously seeks to improve its projects and indicators. At the same time the Lean Manufacturing philosophy with its objective of elimination of waste, for this the optimization of the use of resources and spaces would be proposed, improving the capacity of the work teams.