Aplicação do ciclo PDCA visando a redução de perdas por descartes de matéria-prima na produção de envoltórios naturais

Abstract

The Brazilian meat industry is protagonist in global bovine meat commerce, once the country is the largest exporter of this product. In this context, the livestock supply chain, besides the meat production, generate many subproducts, like natural casings produced from cattle guts. So, the present paper shows a PDCA cycle application, focusing on increasing the raw material yield through waste reduction and, then, increasing the process profits. Thus, the applied methodology aims a better problem comprehension, identification of the main causes related to raw material waste increase in the observed process, and also suggesting some actions to improve the results. Therefore, it was noticed a improvement on the raw material yield, from a average result of 64,1% before actions proposed to a 72,3% yield performance after some actions implementation