O paradigma da manufatura enxuta na indústria de fundição

Abstract

The lean manufacturing paradigm has been used in an extensive manner at some industrial sectors, like automobile industry, which its assembly lines of components, presents better adaptability to the lean concepts. This paper starts with the proposition of applying lean manufacturing concepts in productive processes, and contributes a lot to turn corporations more competitive. The foundry industry, small to medium sized plant, has the difficulty of implementing improvements in its internal logistics systems, and, it has to deal with the problem of temperature processes dependency, such as the casting and the cooling processes. Focus on line balancing and lay out improvement, this work researched the lean manufacturing paradigm application, in a foundry industry in Brazil, with special attention to line balancing. Key words: lean manufacturing, line balancing, lay out, foundry industry.