“Gestão da capacidade produtiva em uma empresa de injetados de Campina Grande”.

Abstract

In order to see how the company manages its production capacity to support the demand of the market, this study discusses the various types of production systems and their classifications based on the vision of leading scholars in the subject. Then concepts of demand and capacity are described distinguing what is capacity of project and effective capacity of an operation, and also the possible losses suffered by a system classifying them in planned and unplanned. By addressing issues involving capacity of any organization, was chosen in achieving a diagnosis, which makes the identification of the causes of loss of production (actual capacity) throughout the production process of the company Duraplast Industry and Commerce Ltda, an industry and manufacturer of injected products, using materials such as poly vinyl chloride (PVC), thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE). In the case study was used a script on the management capacity to define the steps of the research, wich served as a tool for collecting information, being used direct observation, interviews and consultations literature. The main results obtained in the research were able to identify the type of pattern of demand served by the company, the type of policy adopted in capacity and the main loss of capacity in the system.