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Aplicación de la metodología Kaizen a las operaciones mina en la empresa de explotación de cobre Miner S.A.
(Universidad EAFIT, 2019) Gelves Vargas, Misael Ricardo; Henao Rivas, Doraida; Escalante Gómez, Juan Esteban
This work presents a proposal for continuous improvement developed at Miner S.A copper mine, this company is dedicated to commercializing copper and gold concentrate, Miner S.A is located close to El Carmen de Atrato town and it is supported by Kaizen Methodology. In the first part of the work, results of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the last periods in the mine operation are analysed. An area that includes extraction process are selected for intervention and there are characterize by having results that require management. Analysis is framed by a detailed description of elements that constitute each process in order to have detailed information about resources involved. The selected KPIs are efficiency percentage of drilling and blasting process and energy consumption. After selecting these processes, proposals for improvement are presented by using of Ishakawa diagrams tool or fishbone. This tool allows easy identification of problem causes performance in both selected processes. In order to make this analysis as complete as possible and being able to share the Kaizen Philosophy to each area of the organization, its development was supported by administrative and operative workforce.