Proposição de melhorias no índice de extração do açúcar em uma indústria sucroalcooleira no estado do Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

The sugar and alcohol industry is constantly growing, making an advance study of productivity in the sugarcane industry more and more necessary. The extraction sector is the sector that, historically, presents more difficulties to adapt to the parameters necessary for the process to reach the productivity standards, fact that is due to a diversity of operational factors or condition of the raw material. Starting from these principles, the PLAN stage of the PDCA cycle was carried out, with the purpose of obtaining an analysis of the impacts of the raw material condition in the process and the elaboration of action plans to obtain an optimization in the process. Five action plans were obtained as a target for mitigating the impacts generated by the root causes encountered by the tool during the extraction process, which are contained in the preparation of the raw material and in the management of the process as a whole, highlighting the importance of quality at all hierarchical levels of the process.