Aplicação de ferramentas do Lean Manufacturing em uma empresa de distribuição de cosméticos

Abstract

The lean manufacturing system had a great advance in the automotive era, today it is applied in several areas and several types of industries, where this has a philosophy that is associated basically in increasing production and profits using few resources, also called lean manufacturing, has as main objective the implementation and application of lean manufacturing that was developed by the Toyota Production System (STP), Seeking to reduce costs, eliminate waste and make the necessary improvements in the company's processes, the Disban company had a great shortage in the areas of stock management and distribution of goods and it could not increase profits and reduce its operating costs, so it was made use of this philosophy to reduce the problems encountered. It was feasible to apply this research through an interview with employees, where they showed the difficulties of the processes and contributed to the resolution in the future, the results found as stock control, layout improvement and space organization, were widely accepted by the company. Application of some lean manufacturing tools such as kanban 5s, heijunka, kaizen, just in time, jidoka, and abc curve. This way the company was able to seek more productivity and competitiveness in the market due to the applications and changes made, as the layout redefined for the new model reduced the search time and location of products by almost four times more, with the help of 5s brought a new perspective of cleaning and organization for the company, kanban and just in time were of great help to control the stock, making the acquisition of only the main products at the right time.