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South African Journal of Industrial Engineering
versión On-line ISSN 2224-7890
versión impresa ISSN 1012-277X
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GAZOLI DE OLIVEIRA, A.L. y DA ROCHA, W.R.. Productivity Improvement Through The Implementation Of Lean Manufacturing In A Medium-Sized Furniture Industry: A Case Study. S. Afr. J. Ind. Eng. [online]. 2019, vol.30, n.4, pp.172-188. ISSN 2224-7890. http://dx.doi.org/10.7166/30-4-2112.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are very important to national economies. In Brazil, the furniture sector has many SMEs that suffer from international competition, especially from Chinese companies. To reduce this difficulty, this study provides a case study of the partial implementation of lean manufacturing (LM) in a medium-sized furniture industry with the aim of increasing productivity. As a result, the company increased its productivity by 27 per cent in the drilling sector. In addition, the case study shows how to implement LM in a medium-sized furniture industry, demonstrating the need to adapt the system to companies outside the automobile sector.