- Management of international projects- Continuous improvement process (layouts, product design, sinoptics, FMEA...) - Daily contact with suppliers and customers

- Control of costs in different projects- Writing and translation of offers for customers in South America- Communication with customers, suppliers and authorities- Daily communication with purchasing, sales and engineering department- FMECA (Failure mode, effects and criticality analysis) in different projects

- Project management – Design and building a machine that sorts andinspects the aluminum slugs- Development of technical training for new employees- Quality control and industrial statistics- Continuous improvement of processes and production facilities

- Process optimization- Analysis and improvement of products- Quality control and industrial statistics

The production of aluminum aerosols is made by the process of cold impact extrusion, in which an aluminum slug is hit by a punch of steel to a very high velocity, which causes the slug to expand between the walls of the punch and the die, so creating the can. The execution rates are so high that cause failure in the workpieces.Sometimes aerosols have such deep cracks that cause the complete rupture of the piece. This project focuses on finding the cause for the appearance of these cracks, and a study of their shape, size and position with the realization of tests and experiments.Another point of this thesis is the simulation of the inverse extrusion in a FEM software as Abaqus. With this simulation can be obtained visual results of the workpiece, and important variables such as displacement of the elements, or deformations.