TY - GEN
T1 - Textile Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Layout Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Context
AU - Flores-Siguenza, Pablo
AU - Guamán, Rodrigo
AU - Rosero-Mantilla, César
AU - Siguenza-Guzman, Lorena
AU - Jadan-Avilés, Diana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Micro, small, and medium enterprises’ (MSME) role in developing national economies is critical. These enterprises constantly search for effective tools to improve their production processes. However, methodologies proposed by numerous authors are not explicitly adapted to the size of such companies. MSMEs have been developed according to their specific needs, using particular procedures and adapting to a lack of financial resources to invest in substantial improvements. This study seeks to identify the characteristics, needs, and general context that impact layout planning decisions in textile MSMEs. This work proposes an evaluation tool that has been developed within different stages. These stages included a literature review, validation of the information obtained, and the application of the resulting tool in three case studies of textile MSMEs that face different situations. There are marked differences and similarities in the three textile enterprises, making it possible to identify the most important decisions that should be made when planning the layout for their production processes.
AB - Micro, small, and medium enterprises’ (MSME) role in developing national economies is critical. These enterprises constantly search for effective tools to improve their production processes. However, methodologies proposed by numerous authors are not explicitly adapted to the size of such companies. MSMEs have been developed according to their specific needs, using particular procedures and adapting to a lack of financial resources to invest in substantial improvements. This study seeks to identify the characteristics, needs, and general context that impact layout planning decisions in textile MSMEs. This work proposes an evaluation tool that has been developed within different stages. These stages included a literature review, validation of the information obtained, and the application of the resulting tool in three case studies of textile MSMEs that face different situations. There are marked differences and similarities in the three textile enterprises, making it possible to identify the most important decisions that should be made when planning the layout for their production processes.
KW - Ecuadorian context
KW - Layout distribution
KW - MSME
KW - Textile industry
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85128492602
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-03884-6_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-03884-6_20
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85128492602
SN - 9783031038839
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 265
EP - 276
BT - Applied Technologies - 3rd International Conference, ICAT 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Botto-Tobar, Miguel
A2 - Montes León, Sergio
A2 - Torres-Carrión, Pablo
A2 - Zambrano Vizuete, Marcelo
A2 - Durakovic, Benjamin
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2021
Y2 - 27 October 2021 through 29 October 2021
ER -