Everybody who thinks about manufacturing cell understands it as something similar to the cellular organization typically implanted by Toyota, i.e., per product. However, we identify four types of manufacturing cell: per product with predominance of machine, per product with predominance of the operator, per process and per fixed position of the product. The manufacturing cell per process, by presenting three great advantages - proposes significative increase in the operator productivity, it does not require multifuctional operations, it is easily implanted -, it is most advisable to the present level of the manufacturing Brazilian industry
manufacture productivity; inative-time; plant ground; manufacture cell