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Abstract
Nowadays, the automotive industries seek to consider increasingly higher standards of competitiveness. This sector is looking for a proper management methodology to solve a given problem in its kind of organization. In this sense, continuous improvement is essential for any business environment, due to provide conditions for getting excellence levels. Based on this strategy, the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) appears as an option to be applied. Although Lean was originated in the automotive industry, systematic review about Lean Six Sigma in this industry has a lack of research, considering tools and aspects within metrics. For that, the objective of this work is to carry out a literature review on the implementation of Lean Six Sigma in the automotive industry. The databases adopted for this research were Web of Science and Google Scholar, resulting in 69 selected articles. The results indicated that the implementation of this methodology contributes to the continuous improvement process and problem-solving in the automotive branch.
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1 University of Sao Paulo, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil (GRID:grid.11899.38) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0722)
2 Business Unit Automatic Transmissions, ZF Transmissions, Gray Court, USA (GRID:grid.11899.38)
3 Federal University of Sao Carlos, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sao Carlos, Brazil (GRID:grid.411247.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2163 588X)