O lean manufacturing para a produção sem desperdício: um estudo de caso na empresa Futureprint

Abstract

Like many existing processes, lean manufacturing, a waste management philosophy, has come about due to failures of the earlier process of artisanal production and mass production triggered by the natural changes in the market. Some works already carried out with focus on the application of the lean culture in other lines of action approach several difficulties, advantages and important points. The general objective of this research, therefore, is to analyze the lean manufacturing tools used by a company in the graphic sector. As specific objectives, they can be pointed out: to describe the production activities of a company of the graphic sector; identify the tools of lean manufacturing that are used in the company; and analyze the possible benefits and limitations of using these tools in the enterprise. Bringing as a qualitative research methodology the case study, an analysis was made at the company FuturePrint, through a study of convenience and the interview conducted with the manager of the same. In fact, lean manufacturing appeared as a tool capable of improving the growth aspects of a business, from a conscious production and adapted to the needs of the same. It is necessary to emphasize still that the apparently limiting aspects of the lean manufacturing appeared in the research much more related to the posture of commitment in which the company has in its applicability, than to its mechanism itself.