Proposal systematization\'s study of the implantation of systems Kanban in the lean production context

Author(s)

Alessandro Lucas da Silva

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2004-08-27

Examining board members

Antonio Freitas Rentes; Fábio Müller Guerrini; Fernando Bernardi de Souza

• Advisor: Antonio Freitas Rentes

Abstract

\"There were time where the companies could be organizations directed in the proper productive and commercial processes, pressuring the market to adapt its necessities or characteristics, in accordance with the model business-oriented for them practised. In the measure where the society and the market have modified in depth and complexity, demanding at the same time better products, more increasing results and profits, the companies had started to feel the necessity of involving in a continuous process of improvement\" (PINEDO, 2003). In consequence of the process of globalization\'s productive the competitorshad started to pressure much more hardly, for the amazing fact that the market space started to be the entire world. Defects and delays in the delivery of the products are problems not more accepted for the consumers. The increasing requirement of these for specific products and special deliveries has provoked a litigation between the companies and the traditional system of mass production, that many times do not obtain to reach the expectations of the customers. To be detached to this competitive environment, the companies of manufacture, following the steps of the automobile industry, are each time more using the concepts and techniques of the Lean Production, or either, producing in reply the specific demands, only when necessary, controlling the stated period and product quality of delivery, and minimum cost. In this direction, the objective of this work isto consider a method of system implantation Kanban that it can assist the organizations to use this tool of the Lean Production, removing that the biggest possible benefits, as reduction of inventory, improvement of the management system, reduction of delays in deliveries, among others. This method will have to serve as base of orientation for the involved ones in a process of Kanban\'s implantation. (AU)