Esse processo é enxuto? Dilemas de uma Gerente de Produção

Abstract

The AgostiniTêxtilLtda is a cotton jersey’s factory that work in the northeast region of the country. After two decades in operation being recognized product’s quality and punctuality in the delivery, the company is recently facing difficulties, such as late request and high number of defective products. Whereas the productive capacity and restrictive resources, how resolve the problems about the perspective of the dry production? To answer this question, Antonieta – the production’s manager – decides to make a meeting with the company’s staff and found some clues that cause the problems, however the complexity of the situation require quick and satisfactory solutions for the problem of production. The case was written with educational objective of working in classroom the management’s concepts of the productive capacity, restrictions theory and dry management using this content for the managerial decision-making process. This case is right for subjects of Production Administration, Planning and Production Control or Production Systems in level of graduation degree in Administration and Production Engineering, although there is clear interdisciplinarity with others areas of the knowledge such as: Materials Management, Quality Management and Decision-Making.