Uma engrenagem que não pode parar: a importância da medição do tempo de trabalho no fluxo produtivo de uma organização

Abstract

The following Teaching Case aims to give students knowledge of a situation pertinent to the context of Production Management from an analysis in the manufacturing sector of a company in the printing industry. The company in question, entitled JLB, was founded in July 1993 by Mr. José Lucas Batista, and like most new ventures, faced a number of difficulties in the early years. However, it was able to develop and soon differentiated itself from its competitors, becoming one of the leading companies in the brazilian northeastern market. The point is that, lately, the printing company has been having problems in the production flow due to the installation of a new modern machine in the Finishing sector called Cutter, which, because it is faster, implies the need for a new calculation of the times involved in the production. sector to which it belongs, in order to allow the proper programming of the production sector activities. Given this, the dilemma that arises is: how to measure times and perform calculations that guide programming decisions and production capacity? Given that it is an instrument for teaching, the case was developed to be used in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Administration and Production Engineering. The case involves the Work Measurement theme, with measurement content of Normal Time, Standard Time, Tolerance Factor and number of observations required for a given confidence level.