Projeto de arranjo físico modular para beneficiamento da erva mate

Abstract

The consumption of yerba mate stands out intensely in the southern region of Brazil, showing importance in the Brazilian market. The herb market is dominated by largescale industries and tradition in the matte leaf industrialization segment, leaving smaller producers in charge of cultivating and extracting the raw material. The objective of this work is to obtain a conceptual design and assess the economic feasibility of the project. This work seeks to identify improvements in layouts present in the literature that fit the proposal to add value to yerba mate in each stage of industrial processing. Being able to offer yerba mate producers a standardized system, which makes it possible to add value to the yerba mate leaf marketing before sale. For the development of the project, we sought to understand all the steps involved in the manufacturing process, subsequently, a literature review, seeking analysis and layout studies for the mate industry, as well as the costs incurred in the process of industrial installation and processing of the feedstock. The project resulted in the identification of an improvement, based on the relocation of internal processes, based on the studied layout, and after the analysis of costs incurred in the process, the proposal of an application of the maté processing model in maritime containers, providing thus an alternative option to conventional means.