Identificação das principais causas para perda de rendimento na sala de cortes em frigorífico do Paraná

Abstract

The pork has benn gaining space in the table os Brazilian and entering as an advantageous alternative, be it by taste, quality or cost-benefit. Allied to these factors, high prices of bovine pork offer na opportunity to establish themselves in the national Market, with Brazil being one of the largest producers and exporters of protein. The industries of the branch seek more and more the total use of the animal, aiming at obtaining profit and reduction of losses in the process, that are na evil to be treated by the diverse areas and productive branches. In this way, the present study had the objective of evaluating the possible causes of the loss of yield of the pig cuts in a slaughterhouse located in the state of Paraná. For that, the Ishikawa diagram method was used, after the information and organization of the possible ideas generated in a brainstorming were collected. The results were evaluated according to the highest impacts on the yield index, the losses in the boning, refill, red box (descartes) and sweeping were collected, being the loss in the refile the one that presented the highest loss ratio between the items analyzed. The work was completed with the elaboration of a plan of action to apply the improvements raised through the study of causes of the process. In this way, this study intends to help in the achievement of internal production goals, decrease of losses and increase of profit when all study points are accounted for.