Projeto de melhoria de OAE aplicado em uma linha de embalagem de uma indústria farmacêutica

Abstract

Currently, industries and companies in general are looking for more and more efficiency and productivity in their processes, and for that, they are looking for methods that can help in obtaining good results. In this scenario, process improvement methodologies are presented as a great alternative to achieve the established goals, optimize process flows and mitigate the roots of the problems present in this one. In this sense, the objective of this work was to portray the application of the 4'S methodology in a packaging line of a pharmaceutical industry, seeking to improve the Overall Asset Efectiveness (OAE) indicator of the line and exposing the positive and negative points of the application and seeking to establish a standard to be followed for future implementations. For this, a comparison of the 4'S with better known methodologies such as PDCA and DMAIC was carried out, in order to establish relationships between them, and later described how to implement the 4's methodology. From the results obtained from the implementation, it was verified that the methodology was effective, since the process presented OAE results above the established goal after the project was implemented. Thus, it was concluded that the 4'S method was efficient in the above case and can be used as a standard for improving other processes.