Otimização de eficiência na produção alimentícia: projeto de redução de quebras

Abstract

Maintenance is an essential part of industry and is of the utmost importance to ensure equipment reliability, reduce costs and maximize operational efficiency. In order to maintain the condition of a process and an equipment, proper planned maintenance is required, with maintenance plans elaborated and pre-defined execution intervals. To increase operational availability, institutions have been investing in projects to reduce breakdowns, which are strategically focused on identifying and addressing the root causes of breakdowns and equipment failures. The main objective of this study is to reduce unplanned downtime due to breakdowns on a food industry production line. To this end, the components with the highest number of breakdowns were identified and breakdown analyses carried out. From these analyses, countermeasures were proposed to tackle the root causes of the breakdowns. In addition, maintenance indicators relating to breakdowns were also analyzed during the project and the planned maintenance system was reviewed. The results of this work were satisfactory, as it was possible to achieve the target of reducing breakdowns on the production line and to maintain these results for 11 months after the end of the project. Keywords: breakdown, maintenance.