The application of Lean techniques and Petri Nets for the productive improvement of a department in a social-cooperative context.

The paper will expose the characteristics of Petri Nets and Lean manufacturing techniques, and will analyze the application of these methodologies to a production department of a social-cooperative company, exposing the initial situation and the study of the same for the choice of the best tools to use, the application of the improvements previously agreed upon and finally the monitoring period for the verification of the correct functioning of the new production flow. After the focus on the functioning of Petri Nets and on the characteristics of the tools adopted by Lean Manufacturing, there will be the presentation of a practical example of how both methodologies can be functional to the improvement of a company in which greater importance is given to the human rather than productive component.