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The pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus has had negative effects on different industrial sectors, the world economy and especially on Supply Chains. The pandemic revealed the vulnerability of key logistics processes of companies and their Supply Chains as operational risks increased, causing breaks in inventories, production lines and the distribution process caused by increased customer demand. However, this pandemic makes it necessary to reevaluate the models and strategies that companies had established as the standard, and more was needed to face the shortage of components, raw materials and inputs needed to keep the production processes active. Therefore, this article proposes developing a conceptual model under the System Dynamics methodology, which allows identifying the main impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the performance of the Supply Chain through the design of Causal Loop Diagrams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the reduction of downtime in key operations. It also addresses the continuous improvement in the process without modifying the process flow, applying the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) methodology. In which the information of this work will be focused, explaining the activities to be developed to improve the cycle time in the production line and at the same time to be able to cover the new customer demand. It includes in a general way the necessary validation process of the product, objectives delimited by the norms and regulations for the manufacture of medical products are raised. Engineering studies are presented in detail to determine parameters, validations to ensure equipment installations, a protocol with its respective report where statistical studies of capacity and stability of critical processes are shown. As part of the objectives, capacity was increased by 60% in the production line, reducing the cycle time of operations and eliminating bottlenecks through the implementation of new equipment and ergonomic improvements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus has had negative effects on different industrial sectors, the world economy and especially on Supply Chains. The pandemic revealed the vulnerability of key logistics processes of companies and their Supply Chains as operational risks increased, causing breaks in inventories, production lines and the distribution process caused by increased customer demand. However, this pandemic makes it necessary to reevaluate the models and strategies that companies had established as the standard, and more was needed to face the shortage of components, raw materials and inputs needed to keep the production processes active. Therefore, this article proposes developing a conceptual model under the System Dynamics methodology, which allows identifying the main impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the performance of the Supply Chain through the design of Causal Loop Diagrams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]