About me

Who I am

My name is Lucas Rodríguez. I'm an Electronics Technician and an advanced Industrial Engineering student at UNGS, focused on continuous improvement, lean manufacturing and operational reliability in the automotive industry.

What I do

I started in the auto parts industry as a maintenance assistant, and within three years moved up to maintenance analyst and then maintenance planner. Today I work at Ferrosider Parts as Maintenance Planner for ABB robotic welding cells and stamping presses.

I designed and implemented the "Kaizen Parts System", my own continuous-improvement management system (maintenance, 5S, layout, build and quality) that now works as the plant's standard for tracking improvement. I led a Kaizen event on the robotic welding cells with a team of engineers, maintenance technicians and robotics technicians, and we raised the production rate from about 24 to 27 parts per hour (JPH), a +12.5% improvement. I also built a data pipeline for Pareto analysis of welding failures, which is now used to prioritize interventions and plan maintenance.

Education

Electronics Technician. Currently studying Industrial Engineering at UNGS. Certification in Continuous Improvement in Maintenance Management from INTI.

What I'm interested in

The crossover between Japanese methodologies (Kaizen, 5S, TPM, SMED) and digital tools (Python, Node-RED, Power BI, building my own databases). I don't stop at applying the methodology — I also like building the system that sustains it with data.

Why I built LKaizeN

I'm self-taught: I needed a tool where I could look up rules, have calculators on hand, and learn new methodologies. It happened to me often that, on the trip to college, I wanted a quick read about something specific I was trying to learn, and a whole book didn't always solve exactly that.

I already built something similar in-house with the Kaizen Parts System. LKaizeN is the open version of that same idea: I still don't have a network of contacts who can give me recommendations off the top of their head — what to read, which method to use in each case — so I built this site so that the generation just entering the industry can contribute what it's good at (technology, ways of searching and organizing information) and the more experienced generation can contribute what it's good at: applied knowledge, real stories and advice that isn't in any manual.

Who it's for

For someone who just started in a technical-office role and needs to get up to speed fast, and also for someone with 20 years in the industry who wants to refresh a specific piece of academic knowledge.

Get in touch

Write to me at lucasrodriguez5003@gmail.com or on LinkedIn. Comments, corrections and topic suggestions are welcome.