Integration university–industry: laboratory model for learning lean manufacturing concepts in the academic and industrial environments

• Autores: A. L. Helleno, A. T. Simon, M. C. O. Papa, W. E. Ceglio, A. S. Rossa Neto, R. B. A. Mourad
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 29, no. Extra 6, 2013, págs. 1387-1399
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the current production scenario, with a globalized economic environment, companies increasingly need to become morecompetitive to face up to the global market. This means production systems are constantly changing in the direction of thereplacement of the low productivity equipment, rearranging the plant layout, the redirection of the transport stream from thesupplier to the end customer and adding new models to plan and control production. All these changes aim to improve productquality and to reduce production lead time by eliminating waste, reducing costs and increasing competitive advantage through theprocess flexibility. For these changes to happen effectively is necessary that the current employees and the future productionengineers are inserted and fit in this new reality. Currently, the Lean Manufacturing concepts are applied in an industrialenvironment to optimize production flow eliminating the waste found in the process. However, there is a challenge to put these concepts effectively in the industrial environment and in the university environment. The traditional learning process based onteacher, classroom, non-integrated theoretical and practical concepts, case studies with static production characteristic (controlledvariable) has been shown to be ineffective in the consolidation of these concepts in a dynamic production environment. Inuniversity, this same model applied in the production engineering course and fragmented into different disciplines makes productionengineers not fully prepared for the challenges of the new industrial environment, requiring an adjustment period. This adaptationwill result in low competitiveness of the company in front of global competitors. Thus, this article aims to present a laboratorymodel for integrated learning of the Lean Manufacturing concepts based in practices able to reproduce the dynamic productionenvironment, thus speeding the process of training employees of the industrial environment and the learning of future productionengineers.