Proposta de balanceamento para aumento de produtividade de uma fábrica do setor moveleiro

Abstract

Line balancing is addressed within methods engineering, which utilizes systematic methods to analyze and understand work, aiming to develop more effective models to standardize tasks and increase productivity. It was observed in the company focused on in this paper a significant difference in product delivery by sector. It was found that the sanding sector had a delivery lead time of about 15.74 days behind other productive sectors, indicating an imbalance between them. In order to boost productivity, many organizations adopt line balancing practices, such as the company at the center of this investigation. Through a case study, a line balancing study was developed for furniture manufacturing in a sector-specific industry, following these steps: describing the production process of the bottleneck sector, collecting inventory level data in line, measuring production times for balancing, proposing a new production configuration considering line balancing aspects, evaluating impacts within the process, and validating and standardizing the new configuration. With the implementation of this proposal, results showed a reduction of approximately 54% in the lead time of the sanding sector, decreasing from 15.74 days to 8.45 days, and an increase of about 85% in the productive capacity of the same sector, rising from 21 products per day to 39, for a specific product manufactured in the organization