Competitive companies which are guided by the productivity enhancement employ the lean
tools such as single-minute exchange of die (SMED) to reduce the setup time. This study …

Nowadays, the manufacturing industry is increasingly globalized and competitive, where the
quality, cost, variety and fulfillment of delivery deadlines are fundamental factors for the …

Nowadays, the survival and success of companies depend on improving on-time delivery
and cost reduction. To reach this target, it is necessary to get improvements, standardization …

The main purpose of this article is to depict the integration of Lean tools with requirements of
ISO 9001: 2015 standard as an operationalisation and support tool for a Quality …

This article is the result of a work developed in plastic products manufacturing plant. The
main objective of this project was the implementation of Lean tools in the two main products …

Failure to deliver orders because of low production capacity is one of the main problems
faced by companies in the plastics sector. This has repercussions, creating customer …

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to explore the optimization of internal process is
assumed as a critical factor to be capable of answering to the moulds industries …

The Human-Centric SMED (H-SMED) is an evolution of the classical methodology
introduced by Shingo to manage the setup process, which is particularly suitable for …

The main purpose of this paper was to introduce procedural changes based on a type of
human resources management tool using Lean Leadership (LL). We sought to determine …

This work refers to concepts and definitions of Lean Philosophy. The main targets were to
study how waste reduction can be achieved on a production scenario, by identifying added …