UNDERUSED LEAN MANUFACTURING TOOLS IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY

Abstract

Lean manufacturing consists of reducing waste generated in the production process and since 1950 when the Toyota Production System emerged, its concepts and tool applications go beyond production. However, there are still some practices that are not fully applied or known, especially in the Brazilian textile industry. Therefore, the objective of this article is to identify the least widespread term of lean manufacturing in the literature, define and describe benefits of the application. The methodology consisted of a systematic review of literature in databases. Preliminary results showed that the least widespread term in the textile industry is yamazumi, which can be understood as demand balancing. Future studies will correlate whether this gap may be associated with the problems of demand forecasting errors that this sector experiences in practice.