Aplicação do método PDCA para melhoria no processo produtivo: estudo de caso em um frigorífico de frango de corte

Abstract

Globalization has motivated increased competitiveness and brought about changes in corporate strategies. These changes are related to the pursuit of improvement, greater quality and reduction of costs. Nowadays, many business tools help companies to make decisions that are more assertive. In order to guarantee competitiveness, it is necessary to apply methodologies guide the companies’ strategic planning. A practical and flexible method for improvement and problem solving is the PDCA Cycle, which optimizes the culture of continuous improvement of operational processes, with the aim of improving the effectiveness, consistency of information and profitability. In this way, the PDCA methodology was applied with the help of quality tools in a chicken broiler cut with the objective of solving operational problems and increasing the productivity of the process in question. Following each phase of this method, it was possible to find the root causes of the problem of production of breast with sauce, and starting from these causes to propose changes in production as well as formatting and production planning. In this way, it was possible to clear the stops by inefficiency of the process and to double the daily production of breast with sauce in the slaughterhouse.