Identificação das causas das perdas na fabricação de embutidos por meio de ferramentas da qualidade em um frigorífico do Oeste do Paraná

Abstract

The food industry is driven by demand for high quality standards. In order to achieve this standard, not only offering qualified products, a proper diagnosis of the production flow is necessary to seeking continuous improvement, so that losses are avoided, and the maximum production capacity is reached. In this study, in addition to the contextualization of the theme, quality tools were applied from June 2015 to May 2016 in order to identify the main causes of high rework rate of Calabrese sausage in a food industry in western Parana. After identifying the origins of the problem presented, check sheets, Pareto chart and cause and effect diagram are interconnected in order to explain the results, and that thread tools was satisfactory, generating an able analysis to create hypotheses and solutions an action plan proposed for each cause discovered.