Propuesta de estandarización de los procesos productivos en un centro de acopio de cacao de la ciudad de Guayaquil basado en un estudio de tiempos y movimientos

Abstract

In Ecuador there are still industries that manage their operational processes in an empirical way, therefore, there is no supported procedure that allows the taking of right decisions based on justified information of all the elements that make up a company or industry. The objective of this project was to standardize the production processes of a cocoa collection center based on a study of times and movements. The realization of this study allowed to establish the activities that were carried out in the cocoa storage center. Based on a time study, it was possible to determine the duration of the activities that were performed in each of the process areas, considering that the work rate varied at both times of the year, and that the physical effort required by each one of the activities was different depending on the number of operators that the plant had at the time.