Resumen en español

Lean manufacturing is a way of process management that allows companies to adapt easily the changing conditions of the globalized world. The application is different in each company and depends on the conditions that each company is facing, that’s why there’s no “recipe” that you can follow straight, the methodology adapted to each company helps to eliminate waste through the efficient use of several tools. In this project it is shown a proposal of the lean manufacturing implementation in the platen and bars of copper production line. The methodology used is focused in a diagnostic of a production line through the development of the current value stream mapping. In this way it is analyzed the implementation of the lean manufacturing tools which help to eliminate or decrease existent waste in all the line and reduce delivery time improve the quality level and finally reducing costs.