Contribuição da metodologia Lean manufacturing na estratégia de sustentabilidade das empresas

Lean manufacturing has had a significant impact both in academia and in the industrial environment in recent decades showing the power of eliminating waste. In addition to this vision of resource optimization, sustainability has recently ceased to be seen only from the perspective of the environment and has also added concern with social and environmental aspects. Currently, there is increasing pressure on companies to manage their operations responsibly in relation to their environmental and social impacts, motivating companies and researchers to identify ways to implement sustainable operations. Studying the relationship between lean manufacturing and sustainability seems to be a tangible way to answer the question of how to integrate and, therefore, implement these two initiatives together. Starting from a systematic literature review on lean manufacturing methodology and triple bottom line sustainability concepts (TBL) in their social and environmental aspects, the objective of this research was to evaluate how the implementation of lean manufacturing methodology impacts the sustainability strategy of companies in the automobile sector in the state of São Paulo whose manufacture is based on rubber processing. For this purpose, multiple case studies were carried out. Thus, based on the analysis of the data obtained , it was possible to verify that there is a great contribution of the lean manufacturing methodology in the companies’ sustainability strategy , mainly in the economic and social aspects, however, the contribution within the environmental aspect was not unanimous