Melhorias no processo de congelamento automático em um frigorífico de aves

Abstract

The Brazilian poultry industry has a constant development from the hatcheries to the final slaughter process reaching a global featured index. The slaughterhouses success is a consequence of the production system’s quality and efficiency, making Brazil one of the largest poultry exporters. The technology deployed in the refrigerators has a direct contribution in the production process, influencing in the advances applied in the sector. The research was conducted from the demonstration of damaged packing impacts, cause in the automatic freezing process, showing the relation between unscheduled downtimes and damaged packs. The research focused in trying to find out the product with the highest incidence of defective packages inside the Automatic Freezing Tunnel (AFT). Thus with the process explanation was possible to reach the defect’s cause and to propose an improvement in the productive process, reducing the downtime index and hence the losses due that.