Diagrama de causa e efeito: um estudo de caso em uma prensa formadora de painéis derivados de madeira

Abstract

The competition promoted by the highly competitive market brings to companies the need to structure their processes, in order to match and even surpass the level of their competitors. An increasingly assertive maintenance process adds strategic gains to the organization and its profitability. Therefore, this study aimed to apply the cause and effect diagram to perform the failure analysis in a wood-based panel forming press, in order to propose improvements based on the result obtained with the application of Ishikawa. The company used as object of study for this work was a wood-based panel factory, where the problem dealt with was cracks in one of the steel strips of its forming press, resulting from the stuck and subsequent breakage of one of its tracking guides. With the application of the new formulated daily inspection checklist in the production line of the forming press, during a period of four months, no defect was identified that led to the stoppage of the equipment caused by the locking of tracking guides.