Ciclo PDCA aplicado na manutenção de sistemas de refrigeração

Abstract

Industrial refrigeration systems have, for the most part, numerous equipment that operate over long periods of time and extend along long paths. The maintenance of this becomes extremely important for your work efficiently. The investment in state-of-the-art systems as well as the high energy consumption makes this a very delicate point for the management company of the place to which it will be applied, be it in industry, event centers or shopping centers. The use of management tools in the planning and management of the maintenance of these systems comes not only to reduce the number and occurrences of failures, but mainly to assist the maintenance team in the search for continuous improvement of these systems, applying action plans that the operator on the right path. The PDCA cycle is thus one of the main tools for increasing the quality of service of these machines and the search for the best it has to offer. The objective of this work is to show the application of the PDCA tool in the maintenance of a cooling system of a shopping center, providing the maintenance person with the maximum possible knowledge about the subject, as well as data that will be of great importance in the decision of system maintenance and operation priorities.