Improved Laser Cutting Process in Textile-Automotive Industry

Abstract

Increase productivity is the aim of any international company. Focus on achieve their goals many of them invest their resources to survive in a global competition. Under this paradigm, the present chapter exposes the problem that one automotive organization had with a CNC laser cutting machine used in the production process of airbags. The cutting process was identified as a botleneck slowing down the rest of the production process causing problems. TO overcome this problems a continuous improvement team was assembled. The problem was model as a travelling salesman problem and improvement was achieve. The economic benefits of the solution are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.