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Industrial companies are in a constant search for competitiveness, so they need to develop strategies that allow them to sustain over time, offer quality products and get the most benefits from their production system. It is necessary the application of a methodology focused on continuous improvement, where Lean Manufacturing stands out, which provides companies, the use of its resources, contributes to optimize productivity and ensures the quality of products to meet customer needs. It is for this reason that this research presents theoretical and conceptual contributions on this methodology, in order to extract important aspects on the benefits it brings to the production system such as the elimination of waste. In addition, to examine publications on companies that have implemented its tools and to know the results in the solution of their production problems, in which it was found that most of them use the tools: 5'S, Kaizen, Kanban and SMED, since they give solution to one of the most recurrent problems such as reprocesses, dead times and unnecessary displacements.

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