Leaning processes by mobile technologies in a Product Development Sample Shop

Abstract

Lean Thinking is a well-known management philosophy pulling continuous improvement in all organizations processes. By doing this, solutions are designed to add value to the product by reducing wastes in the processes. The wastes could be identified by Value Stream Design for indirect Areas (VSDiA) tool. This tool increase company awareness of each complete process and allows improvement opportunities. Such improvements, many times related to better material and information flow, lead to a reduction of product lead-time. Technology is fundamental to support such improvements. In this article, a multidisciplinary team carried out a project in a company aiming to reduce the lead time in the product prototype development process using the VSDiA and technological solutions via a mobile application. This article presents the ongoing work towards an interface for digitizing information flow using a mobile application that is being submitted to the user's test.