Uma metodologia de implantação do sistema toyota de produção em uma empresa de construção de edifícios a partir do suporte tecnológico do programa de inovação tecnológica Inovacon-CE

Abstract

This research work deals with an information system development in connection to the operation of a Toyota Production System. It was produced along a series of managerial developments put forward by a cooperative research effort known as INOVACON: a group of 14 building companies in the northeast of Brazil are getting together since 1997 to produce managerial improvements in their building sites. Method: a case study was conducted investigating previous managerial practices and those introduced after the INOVACON effort. Results: despite several new Toyota System devices being introduced, like value stream mapping, balance of resource graphs, heijunka boxes and andon system, it is argued that the most valuable result was the proposition and workings of a Information System introduced on a small scale building site. Contribution: the work describes how the information systems works, employing the same group of administrative personnel that was previously engaged on traditional managerial activities.