Proposta de aplicação da produção enxuta em uma indústria do setor moveleiro

Abstract

With the social economic growth, small businesses including the planned furniture have been analyzing new ways to strengthen the market that is increasingly competitive, thus seeking advantages over competitors having as their biggest challenge to meet the demand of the product satisfactorily. This study aims to prepare the proposed application using some concepts of lean production to a small carpentry for disposal of waste. Given that companies need to produce as efficiently as possible, the implementation of a production system with a focus on eliminating waste, is a way to manage valuable if the waste were smaller gains in relation to quality, costs and customer satisfaction would be expanded. To achieve the goal, it was applied in the workshop the main concept of lean production is elimination of waste, and both sought to tools and techniques to aid these eliminations. Through applied research, with a qualitative approach obtained through unstructured interviews and direct observations, the case study in the workshop was held.