Propostas de melhoria para o PDP de uma empresa de máquinas agrícolas com base no modelo de PDP da Toyota
Resumo
While in the last years Toyota Production System (TPS) has been largely studied
and documented, Toyota Product Development System (TPDS) remains obscure,
although it is known that a good production system hadly depends on a good product
development system. This research presents a set of proposals for Product Development
Process (PDP) improvement in an agricultural machines company, based in the
Toyota s product development principles and practices. For so much, at first it has been
made a literature review which objective was to understand and to describe Toyota s
PDP and its leading principles from a systemic viewpoint. The research development
makes use of action research method to report the study object current situation and
raising its main problems, which consist in the target to be hit by the improvement
proposals. Such proposals were formatted considering the Toyota s PDP principles and
management practices applicability to the studied company reality and its both market
and technological context. The work contributes from the academic viewpoint to a
better understanding of TPDS and also from the organizational viewpoint about how it
is possible to apply the studied principles as the base for reorganization and continuous
improvement of an agricultural machines company s PDP