Soybean industrialization involves different stages; harvesting, processing, storage and transportation, through which seeds suffer mechanical damages that result in significant economic losses for producers. Therefore, to improve production processes it is convenient to identify the damage causes and methods used in the industry for its measurement, in order to mitigate losses linked to machinery. The objective of this work is to provide the reader an overview of the methods of mechanical resistance analysis of soybean seeds during processing. A review of the literature related to methods and properties associated with mechanical damage in soybean seeds from harvest to storage was conducted. For this purpose, 51 bibliographic references from 1971 to 2018 were grouped according to the mentioned stages and reviewed according to a set of proposed dimensions of analysis. Finally, it is concluded about similarities found in the analyzed works and identified common trends of research in the applied methods.