Aplicação de troca rápida de ferramentas (TRF) em linhas de recebimento: um estudo de caso em uma indústria do setor sementeiro

Abstract

The agribusiness sector is one of the key sectors of the Brazilian economy and is responsible for generating a significant portion of gross domestic product (GDP) and job creation and income, mainly maize seed sector. Due to the emergence of new technologies and improvement of agro-industrial processes competitiveness has shown more and more present in day to day of the companies. Because of these facts, the objective of this work is to reduce setup time of three processes that make up four receiving lines in a seeds processing plant located in Paracatu / MG, through the SMED methodology. The methodology of this research is a case study because changes are suggested in the setup process that can increase the productivity and efficiency of the company. As a result, there was obtained a reduction of 56% of the setup time required to clean the production line, representing an increase in the productive capacity of the plant of 6.2%.