UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA

FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA

Reduction of set-up time in CNC machines of the MIX cell

Student Name : López Reyes Noé David.
Company tutor: Ing. Fernando Mercado
UABC Tutor: M.I. Luz del Consuelo Olivares Fong PVVC 2: Manufacture

Company description

Honeywell Aerospace is an important supplier of aeronautical engines, avionics systems on the

aerospace industry.
Problem Description Specific objectives
The long time of setup changes of the CNC machines in the cell mix 1. Analysis of the equipment
generates bottlenecks and as a consequence causes a delay in the 2. Define critical equipment to reduce the configuration
manufacturing. 3. Set current configuration times
4. Perform kaizen activity to reduce cycle times
General objective 5. Post the improvement
Reduce the setup time by 20% in the CNC equipment of the MIX cell 6. Standardize processes
7. Monitor new set up times
Methodology
• The quantity of pieces that are processed in CNC machines • It is known that the estimated reduction time is 40 seconds, so the
D depends on the complexity of the piece and the axes in which the results of partial reduction are as follows: See table 3.
machine works. See table 1. A

Machine Status Partial % of the total

Amount of pieces Pieces Number of tools Second time
reduction set up
FRES-HOR-CNC-07 11 Critical RONNIE 80 9 40 9%
3.7
V22 6 40 2.44 6%
FRES-HOR-CNC-01 7 No critical FRANCESA 14 40 5.68 11%
Table #3. Partial reduction
FRES-VER-CNC-05 3 No critical

Table #1. Quantity of pieces per machine.

• I • Change the clamping pin
The time of installation of the tool is directly related to • Reduce the process of placing tools by 38%
the amount of tools that the piece needs to be
M machined, and that the average time of placement in
the tool is 105 seconds. See table 2.
•Standardize processes
Set up time in % of the total •Compare with current weather
Pieces Number of tools Second time
minutes set up c •Take new times
RONNIE 80 9 105 13.05 31%
V22 6 105 8.7 21%
FRANCESA 14 105 20.3 40.60%
Table #2. Use of tools by piece
Results Conclusion and Recommendations
With the implementation of the improvement, the set up time of the pieces
analyzed was reduced from 41 to 31.65, from 40 to 33.7 and from 50 to 33.38 Based on what has been done, it can be concluded that it is
minutes, respectively, as shown in graph 1. possible to reduce the set up time, since the approach that was
And this represents a reduction of, 23%, 16% and 30%, of the total set up per given to achieve this goal was to reduce the time of placement of
piece.
the tools during the configuration of the piece, although time is
Pieces analyzed
conditioned by the amount of tools used during the machining
process, it is not a disadvantage because the more tools you use,
50 the longer the reduction time.
40
41 40 50 Recommendation
Minutes

30
31.65 33.74 33.38
20
Standardize all the CNC machines of the factory, because the
10 project only made the machines for the cell mix.
0
RONNIE 80 V22 FRANCESA
Graph #1. Reduction of times
May 15th , 2018.