Análise de viabilidade econômica para implementação da metodologia SMED em uma indústria sementeira

Abstract

The agroindustrial sector is one of the fundamental sectors of the Brazilian economy, being responsible for the generation of a significant part of the gross domestic product (GDP) and the generation of employment and income, especially the corn seed sector. Due to the emergence of new technologies and improvement of agroindustry processes, competitiveness has been increasingly present in the daily lives of companies. Due to these facts, the objective of this work is to evaluate the economic viability of the execution of a project proposing an improvement in the setup time of three processes that make up four receiving lines in a seed processing industry, through the Single Minute Exchange of Die methodology. (SMED). The methodology of this research is the case study because changes in the tool change process are suggested, which may increase the productivity and efficiency of the industry. As a result, a 56% reduction in the setup time required to clean the production lines was obtained, obtaining an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 47%.