The purpose of this paper is to provide a proposal of a production management model using lean manufacturing techniques to improve on-time deliveries of a metal-mechanic company that works in a make-to-order (MTO) manufacture ...

Small and medium-sized enterprises often rely heavily on their production process to position themselves in the market. However, there are few situations where companies have the knowledge and financial resources to improve ...

Each country's metalworking industry has much economic development, providing companies with jobs and new products. However, companies have different problems in improving various aspects such as production, quality, and ...

This research presents a study about the techniques for quality assurance used by companies in the metalworking industry in the Alto Tietê region, state of São Paulo. Through this, the techniques recommended by the literature ...

The application of lean manufacturing seeks to reduce waste and increase productivity, a problem faced by SMEs in the metal-mechanic sector in Peru, due to the lack of knowledge of the tool and the organizational culture. ...

The main objective of Lean Manufacturing tools is to eliminate waste from a process in order to make it more efficient. In this applied research with a quantitative approach, the production process of a steel coil cutting ...

This research is focused on human management practices of the most representative companies in the metalworking sector AMCO from economic openness. The report presents a conceptualization of human management practices and ...