This paper describes the operating modes adopted in
manufacturing cells of an assembly controller’s heat boilers
firm and its influence on the productivity. The paper also
presents the difficulties that cells faces when it is formed free
of care in selecting and recruiting adequate and motivated
people to form the team for operating the cells. These
careless and other factors discussed here causes lower
productivity. One of the appointed advantages of the cells is
the possibility of varying the number of operators when the
demand varies. In spite of this, this advantage could be a
disadvantage if the persons recruited are not prepared or
motivated. This action research industrial study shows that
the cells must be part of a strategy of the company not an
easy solution that someone thinks that “may be it works
here”. When the cells are adopted inside this spirit its difficult
to achieve all the benefits of the cells transforming these,
many times, in failures
