SISTEMA DE CONTROL DE PRODUCCIÓN EN UN TALLER DE RECUPERACIÓN DE PARTES AERONAUTICAS

Abstract

An efficient production control is fundamental for any aeronautical overhaul workshop; nowadays airlines are embedded in a fierce competitive environment, tight security regulations and low cost operation requirements. Appeal to process improvements is a survival best practice in the Mexican market. This work deals with the diagnosis, analysis, design, programming and implementation of an automatic production planning and controlling system for the overhaul workshop in a Mexican airline, being this a key tool for productivity enhancement according to current labor conditions in this business unit. Align to the objective of linking manufacturing engineering professionals with the Mexican productive sector by developing improvement projects as part of the necessary requirements to fulfill in the masters degree program in manufacturing engineering offered by the National Polytechnic Institute, the developed thesis approach a productivity problem in the overhaul workshop of one of Mexicans lead airlines. This problem was solved with an automatic informatics system developed with the consultancy of: this thesis director, the overhaul workshop boss and the operations manager of the airline. The state of the art for production control systems, antecedents, objectives, justification, and context situation for the problem constitutes first chapter; analysis and diagnosis of the current production chain is included in chapter two; the design and system construction is included in chapter three; implementation process in chapter four; and results evaluation were analyzed in last chapter. Conclusions based in contrasted benefits, recommendations and derivate projects from this thesis were discussed after last chapter. The productivity rise achieved by the implementation of this tool allow the company new alternatives to get more costumers outside the airline aiming to maximize installed capacity use; these alternatives were discussed in the conclusions and recommendations sections. Finally future works were commented based on this thesis results impact to set the following steps in operations improvement.