Uso do lean manufacturing em laboratórios de ensino do ISB / UFAM para redução de desperdícios e melhorias na produtividade

Abstract

Organizations suffer from fierce competition and continuous need for change, because of the dynamic environment they are inserted, also occurring in Higher Education Institutions. The market is increasingly competitive and fierce, where many organizations are looking for alternatives to support themselves by subtracting waste. Regularly, this waste originates from internal factors, such as overproduction, high levels of inventories, unnecessary movements and high rates of waiting processes. In view of this, lean manufacturing has become a means for these organizations to maintain themselves by providing the improvement of production processes. Universities have been undergoing a significant change in relation to the conduct of their activities with the reduction of their budget due to the current situation in the country, which compromises the payment of outsourced services such as purchases of materials and maintenance of equipment. In view of this, the work proposes a cost reduction methodology using the tools that the Lean philosophy provides and bringing the benefits of this methodology to the activities developed in the laboratory sectors. In this way, as the general objective of this study, we will use the lean concept of the Lean philosophy to optimize the process of saving materials and aim at increasing productivity in the laboratories of the Institute of Health and Biotechnology. The development of the research, a bibliographic review, document analysis and field research were carried out. The approach is qualitative with an exploratory nature, presenting a case study. It is concluded that the lean manufacturing tool provides a significant gain in the functioning of the organization, in the progress of the employees, and especially in the financial gains of the organization.