Aplicação da metodologia Lean Six sigma na unidade de massas de uma indústria alimentícia do Oeste do paraná

Abstract

The mass industries are constantly improving and developing products to meet customers’ needs, which makes them seek improvements in their production processes, investing in higher levels of quality and productivity, and respecting the reduction of costs to keep assets in this scenario. Therefore, features such as flexibility, high performance are extremely important for alignment to innovate and remain at a competitive level. On this, it is seen, the dry mindset, along with the Six Sigma philosophy, which act on the reduction and quality control processes, respectively, become indispensable tools for success. Thus, the objective of this work was to apply the Lean Six Sigma methodology in a pasta industry in the west of Paraná, aiming to increase the productivity of quality assurance tools, statistics, and experiments and analyzes. By means of which, one can measure the process capability and identify the main wastes, with the purpose of adjusting the process to generate better results, in this way, one can find opportunities for improvement and suggestions to the process, to control and monitor the production line.