Identificação dos aspectos relacionados a um projeto de melhoria contínua

Abstract

The development of the concept of continuous improvement takes place within the industrial sector due to the growing market demand for more exclusive deliveries combined with the desire of companies to have greater capacity and reduce costs. Then, projects that generate improvements in production processes, with low cost for their development, from methods such as DMAIC, to ensure better capacity arise. In this context, it is possible to observe aspects that directly impacts the results of the actions and the proposed schedule, such the communication between the teams participating the project. Thus, this work aims to identify the development aspects of a continuous improvement project and verify its impacts. Using the action research method, a project focused on picking optimization was evaluated, without financial investment made in an agro-industry located in Uberlândia/MG. As a result, there were problems related to the delay in the return of asynchronous communications between the teams, as well as the delay in the correct interpretation of the message, which caused the delay of the initially proposed schedule.