Aplicação do ciclo PDCA para redução de perda de etiquetas em uma indústria alimentícia

Abstract

The concept of continuous improvement involves a constant commitment to excellence and the relentless pursuit of opportunities for optimization and improvement. By adopting a continuous improvement approach, organizations seek to identify and eliminate potential waste. To deal with this challenge, companies implement strategies and practices to minimize and, ideally, eliminate these losses. Connecting the dots, the aim of this work is to use the continuous improvement tool PDCA (plan, do, check and act) together with process mapping, the Ishikawa diagram, the 5 whys, among other methods, in order to reduce label losses in a food industry. In the planning phase, we got to know the process, then surveyed the history of the problem and, finally, collected data on the problem at the present time, stratifying and analyzing it so that we could later identify the root causes and put together an action plan. In the execute phase, some of the actions defined in the previous phase were put into practice. In the check phase, the impacts that the implemented actions had on the problem were analyzed. Finally, the act phase showed that the actions had an effect on the problem, but that the initial goal had not been achieved.