Abstract

The application of Lean thinking in organizations, particularly in the industry sector, has been of great value to assist in reaching the organizations' objectives, creating the necessary goals links between the government and the science in the project designing. In the case of the industrialization process is consisted by the optimization of the activities and the resources, starting with the identification and subsequent exclusion of the wastes from the project creation stage until the final stage. This work is related to the Program for the Promotion of Rural Industry (PROFIR), which is one of the actions of the Angolan government through the Ministry of Industry within the industrialization process. Therefore, this research evaluates the PROFIR in the design stage of the project, using the Lean thinking tools to identify the waste resulting from the project design stage, recommending an optimized solution of the used resources. The methodology in use is the documentary research focused on the PROFIR case study where it was found that there is a considerable quantity of waste in the industrialization process considering the PROFIR, revealing as well that the PROFIR projects' staffs suffer a lack of knowledge and culture in the Lean thinking philosophy.