Utilização de OBEYA para a organização e gestão de projetos de engenharia: estudo de caso em uma empresa automobilística

Abstract

Today, companies have encountered many difficulties to remain competitive in the market. Competition is becoming more and more, the market changes quickly and unexpectedly. Having said that, agility in decision-making process is very important and also in the improvement of all processes and projects within the enterprises. In that case, a well-executed management can be the differential for a business, in increasing the main indicator, which is profitability. In this way, many institutions try in various ways to develop or use methods and tools that enable this agility and improvement. Following this information, this work is a case study that aims to evaluate the results of the application of the Lean manufacturing management tool, Obeya, in the project management of an automobile company, from the creation of a tool to control the applications results and continuous improvement, called Cockpit. So, the informations obtained through the qualitative research method, will be shown, where the data were collected through the analyses of documents, photos, videos and also through meetings held with those responsible for the tools. In this way, the application processes of Obeya will be explained, in addition to the development and importance of the Cockpit, which was developed by the author of this work. Finally, the results of reducing delays, reducing project application time and increasing the number of applications, found after applying Obeya and also Cockpit, will be shown.