Aplicação da ferramenta de qualidade PDCA com gerenciamento de projeto para melhoria do processamento de produtos cárneos, cozidos e curados

Abstract

The smoked sausage market is under pressure to gain market and customer reliability. Being the most sold product in Brazil, among the cold and embedded and thus have a wide variety of brands of the same product, this needs to have quality and reliability. The vacuum problem in the packaging of the product becomes an obstacle to reach this market differential. In this context, the work presents an application of the PDCA methodology with project management assistance, as a management tool in a smoked sausage production industry. The work presents the detailed and effective methodology for solving the problem and established goals. The main cause of the vacuum packaging problem was identified, and the best actions were taken to solve the problem in the face of the reality, premises and restrictions of the company. As a result, the targets were achieved by reducing the percentage of reprocessing by vacuum loss from 2.5% to 1.2% on average per year. Thus, the work and the methodology proved to be efficient and effective in face of the problematization addressed.