Aplicação da metodologia SMED para redução do tempo de setup em uma linha de beneficiamento de sementes

Abstract

This study aims to show how production engineering, through its numerous areas of activity, can add value to one of the industries that has shown itself to be most resilient in generating wealth for Brazil in recent years, agribusiness. Currently in a Market with increasing competitiveness every small breakthrough can become a major competitive advantage, the search for better results increasingly encourages organizations to invest resources to optimize their production process, in this context, one of the main factors that influence considerably is the time the machine is idle when changing product, being in preparation, or when changing tools or when there is any downtime during the production process for some adjustment, this time is called the Setup time. Due to these facts, the main objective of this study is to suggest improvements, where changes are suggested in the cleaning process of a soybean seed processing line through the application of the SMED tool. For this, bibliographic research was conducted with the consultation of articles and concept books in the area, and data collection in the studied line. If the proposal is implemented, it would be possible to achieve a 37,8% reduction in Setup time to change soybean seed cultivars.