Aplicação da metodologia PDCA e ferramentas da qualidade para mapeamento de ossos no produto final do meio peito

Abstract

Brazil is the world’s second largest chicken meat producer and the biggest exporter of the protein. Thus, the food security and the quality in the food industry’s process to ensure safety has already become a priority at companies in this field. By using management tools, one can notice some critical points in a wider view, from receiving the poultry until the final product’s expedition moment. The PDCA is a well-used methodology in big companies, to facilitate the process of identifying the root causes of the problematic in question, along with the support of many other quality tools, making the analysis process and the collect of data more effective. Because of globalization and increasingly demanding clients, securing the quality and safety of both the exported food and the ones sold in the domestic market, is indispensable. Food security goes beyond safety, it also values the ethics and it reflects in trust from the consumer’s part. With the intention of making sure that the established standards are being followed, extensive tests are conducted during the slaughter and the production of all the products. The requirements are very rigorous from the farming to the final product’s packaging, therefore, there is a very solid monitoring and controlling in all the processes of the company, and for that, the usage of quality tools and the PDCA cycle is being increasingly standardized.