The application of MMVSM at the company proved that the concept of shared resources
was helpful to allocate supermarket models in our future state maps. Examining the operation
process charts at the company identified that the first two manufacturing operations for most
of parts produced are the same, which are docking and moulding. Therefore, the flow, starts
after those two operations and controlled by the use of a supermarket model with a maximum
production limit to control the consumption of this material.