Aplicação de uma metodologia de manutenção centrada em confiabilidade em uma indústria sucroenergética

Abstract

With the advent of a globalized economy, ensuring the quality of products and service requires excellence in design and process through an increase in demand for products and high performance systems at competitive cost, emerging the need to reduce failures and increased reliability of the factories. Asset management is seen as one of the most favorable areas to the insertion of improvements in quality and reliability, in this field the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) has shown a great potential. This study addressed the proposition of a reliability centered methodology through the support of management tools, also the study of FMEA and ascertainment of the reliability of a critical equipment in the process in order to improve the performance of the system`s functions regarding the reliability, availability, quality and maintainability. The method used for the research was the action research, qualitative and quantitative applied to the in a company active in the sugarcane industry producing ethanol. Concerning the results obtained, in general, the study and implementation of RCM contributed to identifying the actual situation of the power plant`s maintenance and functionality, allowing the proposal of a adapted maintenance methodology focusing on the effective preservation of device`s functions in the company.