Kaizen Tools For Productivity Improvement: a real case.

Wallace de Almeida1, Giorgio Eugenio Oscare Giacaglia2,

Wendell de Queiróz Lamas3, Fabiano Fernandes Bargos4

1  Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Taubate, Taubate, SP, Brazil,

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2  Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Taubate, Taubate, SP, Brazil,

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3  Department of Basic Sciences and Environment, School of Engineering at Lorena, University of Sao Paulo, Lorena, SP, Brazil, E-mail: Địa chỉ email này đã được bảo vệ từ spam bots, bạn cần kích hoạt Javascript để xem nó. .

4  Department of Basic Sciences and Environment, School of Engineering at Lorena, University of Sao Paulo, Lorena, SP, Brazil, E-mail: Địa chỉ email này đã được bảo vệ từ spam bots, bạn cần kích hoạt Javascript để xem nó. .

ABSTRACT

It is shown how that the establishment of Kaizen tools can greatly improve the productivity of a Company producing mobile phones.

This action-research made a diagnosis of a single assembly line to serve as a prototype of a companywide project, selecting a team to deploy the

Kaizen tools as well as a 5S policy, leading to standards of all operations needed for the completion of high quality handsets. Throughout this article, a critical view of the entire development process, enhancing actions necessary to actually improve all steps necessary in the assembly lines operations.

The prototype line was completed and all the standard operations recorded in order to disseminate this knowledge over all assembly lines.

Keywords: 5S; assembly lines; knowledge management; mobile phones; standardization.

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