Propuesta de mejora del proceso de recuperación de chatarra en el área de procesamiento de materia prima de la empresa Andec S.A.

Abstract

At present, recycling has become of vital importance both in society and in industry, but when recycling these various materials, they must also be classified correctly, in order to put them to good use according to their characteristics. All the materials that are recycled are treated differently, this varies according to the type (paper, cardboard, plastic, scrap), they previously go through a collection, classification and storage process. As a result of this, organizations emerged which are responsible for managing and classifying each of these materials according to their characteristics, but not all of them have an effective process when it comes to their classification, scrap is one of them. Today the classification of scrap is a problem for large and medium-sized companies that are dedicated to buying and selling it. The industry, receiving large amounts of scrap, cannot adequately filter what material reaches its facilities, so they need machines to help in the process of separating ferrous materials, but since there is no commercial system for classifying the materials non-ferrous companies use the traditional method, which is done manually by organizing non-ferrous scrap, which is not very efficient, causing many organizations to choose to eliminate this waste. This proposal was made with the interest of reducing the accumulated scrap quickly and efficiently. Defining a new methodology which improves the classification process of non-ferrous materials, in this way the company could recover a percentage of ferrous material and non-ferrous material, transforming what was once called waste into an asset for the company. The purpose of this project is to carry out a complete study in the PMP area to be able to subjectively analyze the different variables that arise in the case, to improve the classification of non-ferrous materials, through numerical values that capture the reliability, efficiency and profitability of the project.