Analizar la viabilidad de la implementación de smart factories en las grandes empresas de la industria automotriz del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito

Abstract

The present investigation had the purpose of knowing the characteristics of a smart factory and how it can be set up in the big companies of the automotive industry in the DMQ, Omnibus BB Transportes who assembles CHEVROLET vehicles and Aymesa currently assembling the vehicles of AEKIA and NEOHYUNDAI.

To complement the study the characteristics of smart factories proposed by (Hozdić, 2015) and (Burke, Mussomeli, Laaper, Hartigan, & Sniderman, 2017) were taken into account with the principles that support the change to smart factory proposed by (Hermann, Pentek , & Otto, 2015) and how they are releated with the administrative and productive processes of each company. In this way, the feasibility or not of a smart factory in this industry has been verified and it has been suggested several strategies that can be employed to start the transformation into a smart factory.

After the financial, legal and technical analysis of the viability, by means of interviews we linked the theory of the smart factories with the reality of each company to analyze the way in which each one will adapt to the change and if they will consider to become a smart factory, finding that although they have potential to perform the market would not allow the change by the low demand of units, it would still be pertinent to jump to the Industry 4.0 to have a more solid and connected industry.