Application of the Lean Manufacturing Culture: Case Study in a Cell Phone Company of the Industrial Pole of Manaus

Abstract

The productive potential of the industries, the increasing need for effective industrial process management and the opportunity for general improvement of corporate performance, through the application of the concept and tools of Lean Manufacturing, were the main motivating agents of this research work. In the context of this scenario, the cellular manufacturing processes were analyzed in a manufacturing company outsourced from the Industrial Pole of Manaus that uses the literature of Lean Manufacturing as a pillar of support to confection of its functional processes. The case study was structured in three distinct parts: analysis of the original situation of the company, identifying opportunities for improvement according to the specificities of the process flow; application of the identified improvements and finally a comparative analysis between the data obtained with the improvements on the processes with respect to the wastes identified.