Aplicação de ferramentas da filosofia lean manufacturing visando o aumento da produtividade em uma fábrica do setor de vestuário

Abstract

The garment industry has been facing an increasingly competitive market, which has been demanding strategies development and the search for technologies that provide competitive advantages. This need has increased in the last years since companies started to deal with strong abroad competition from products imported from countries as China. Lean manufacturing arises as an alternative in shape of a strategy to increase competitiveness and as an effective method to reduce costs by eliminating waste and providing a better flexibility in production. The application of these lean manufacturing practices, originated from Japan at the Toyota Motor Company, has been shaped into different types of processes, providing several benefits to industries. This paper presents a literature review of some tools and concepts from the Lean manufacturing system, as well as a case study demonstrating the implementation of the value stream mapping technique and application of some continuous flow characteristics in a garment industry to provide solutions to eliminate or reduce waste using Lean manufacturing principles. In this way, significant results were obtained from the productivity increase and the reorganization of the industrial layout.