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Vol. 14 No. 3 (2023)
Original Research Article

Application of the SMED methodology through folding references for a bus manufacturing company

Asel Juárez-Vite
Área Académica de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Hidalgo, El Álamo, Hgo, México
José Ramón Corona-Armenta
Área Académica de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Hidalgo, El Álamo, Hgo, México
Héctor Rivera-Gómez
Área Académica de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Hidalgo, El Álamo, Hgo, México
Oscar Montaño-Arango
Área Académica de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Hidalgo, El Álamo, Hgo, México
Joselito Medina-Marín
Área Académica de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Hidalgo, El Álamo, Hgo, México

Published 2023-09-12

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Keywords

  • SMED,
  • Bodywork assembly,
  • Subassemblies,
  • Folding references

How to Cite

Juárez-Vite, A., Corona-Armenta, J. R., Rivera-Gómez, H., Montaño-Arango, O., & Medina-Marín, J. (2023). Application of the SMED methodology through folding references for a bus manufacturing company. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 14(3), 232–243. https://doi.org/10.24867/IJIEM-2023-3-335

Abstract

Bodywork assembly in bus manufacturing is a task that involves several operations. In Mexico, many bus manufacturing companies have non-flexible production lines, which makes model change very problematic. In response to this situation, the SMED methodology was applied to make more flexible production lines in terms of setup reduction for model changing. In this paper, the urban bus assembly line was studied, which is composed of sub-assembly stations that subsequently feed the station that assembles the unit, and that joints all the frames of the required model, the aim of the paper is to propose an approach to reduce the production time through the use of folding references. With the application of the SMED, it was observed that the production line improved in the transition from one body structure model to another, obtaining results of 56.2% in the time reduction.

Article history: Received (November 8, 2022); Revised (June 24, 2023); Accepted (July 12, 2023); Published online (July 26, 2023)

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