PLANEJAMENTO E CONTROLE DA PRODUÇÃO: dificuldades encontradas e proposta de melhoria durante a implementação em uma empresa de sinalização semafórica

Abstract

Through the demands of today's consumer market, industries need to plan and control their processes to quickly adapt to customer needs. Given this scenario, this study is justified due to the fact of pointing to a discussion about the importance of structuring the tools of Production Planning and Control in small companies. The objective of this work is to show the difficulties encountered in the implementation of Production Planning and Control in a South Minas Gerais semaphore industry and to propose improvement solutions. This study was carried out through the bibliographic review of the main concepts of Production Planning and Control and the accomplishment of a case study of the company in question. It has been demonstrated that the difficulties in the implementation of Production Planning and Control are associated with the change of organizational culture and integration between the sectors of the process.