Lean Manufacturing aplicado a uma oficina mecânica

Abstract

The Lean Manufacturing philosophy responds to this need by lecturing the quest for continuous improvement through the enhancement of techniques, procedures, and removal of waste from processes. This enables companies to achieve better costs, flexibility, quality, and customer services. In this context, the paper's objective is to clarify the concepts of lean production, and to elaborate on the countless advantages of how an organization can benefit from adopting Lean tactics even if it is a service company. Therefore, first of all, it is established a historical context of Lean Manufacturing as well as an explanation of its five principles and seven waste types which this system aims to eliminate, following with the main tools used to achieve the Lean objectives in an organization, it is then possible to be applied in the environment of a mechanical workshop, then after the application of the concepts that best fit the environment and budget of the workshop resulting in the reduction of waste in the time of service rendering and also in the best organization of the space used