Estudo de caso da aplicação da metodologia Kaizen para redução de defeitos de qualidade em uma indústria de papel

Abstract

With the increasing competitiveness in the industrial sector, the implementation of management and maintenance methodologies and systems has become a common concern among organizations seeking survival and prominence in the market. In this context, one of the oldest and most popular industrial methodologies, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), emerges as a consolidated alternative, structuring autonomous maintenance and providing the necessary tools to ensure continuous improvement at all operational levels in the pursuit of zero accidents, zero defects, and zero breakdowns. This work addressed, through a case study, the attempt to reduce a quality loss in a paper company in the Guarapuava/PR region using one of the methodologies within TPM, Kaizen. Although the results did not show a significant decrease in the addressed defect, Kaizen proved to be an extremely applicable methodology, being agile and easily replicable.