Sugestão de um roadmap para implementação do lean manufacturing em pequenas e médias empresas

Abstract

The research and investment on continuous improvement actions and projects by small- and medium sized organizations has been driven by the growing increase in global competitiveness. Due the organizations’ difficulty in identifying the best path to implementation the roadmap appears as an option when determining an objective and clear method for this. This paper presents a roadmap suggestion to Toyota Production System implementation, best known as Lean Manufacturing in small- and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper a bibliographic review is presented, exposing the concepts of methods and tools commonly used during lean system implementation. Additionally, steps are presented that will suggest organizational culture changes as well as the methods and tools that will create a basic stability on the processes and proposed actions to support the implemented system will be suggested. Thus, it is concluded that although the implementation of Lean production system is a complex task, the use of the roadmap can help directing and adapting Lean and its tools to obtain good results in the organization.