A importância da manutenção produtiva total na melhoria continua do processo: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The competitive landscape in the industrial sector increasingly requires companies to adopt a strategy that seeks the increase of productivity, the improvement of quality and reduce costs. In Japan several concepts exists for decades and are being used until present days, for example the concept of “Just in Time”. Also crated in Japan, the TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) presents itself differently, with the focus in the human resources, through change in human behavior in all factory sectors. The main benefits of this model are productivity, product quality, equipment availability and safety. Through the implantation of the TPM concept in the metallurgical industry of “Nelson do Brasil” located in the city of Santa Rosa in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This study shows the impacts with reduction in rework of 41.2%, increase in overall efficiency of 58.14% and reduction of failures.