Abordagem Lean em um sistema produtivo de bovinos de corte: redução de desperdícios e aumento da produtividade

Abstract

The productive system of beef cattle is an important economic activity for Brazil, which hasn’t reached the limits of its productivity yet. It should be noted that most of the producers seek to increase this productivity through new management alternatives and do not seek to reduce their problems (wastes). In this perspective, the present study aims to propose improvement recommendations for the reduction of waste in a productive system of beef cattle in a rural property, with the aid of the Lean approach. The research is characterized as a case study, as it seeks to describe the situation in which the study is being conducted. The following methodological procedures were developed in order to define the steps that ought to be followed to reach the final objective: definition and mapping of the current processes, identification of the wastes, mapping of the future state, action plan and, finally, the validation of the proposals. Therefore, to achieve improvement through the reduction of wastes, the present study detailed how the flows of materials and of information occur within the property, trying to improve them by means of tools and actions of low cost, where, in the three scenarios studied, the optimum, the standard and the bad scenario, there was a reduction in lead time, which was, respectively, 8%, 9%, and 20%. Thus, Lean is an approach that can be used in several segments, contributing to the improvement of systems.