Análise da viabilidade econômica de automação em um processo de envase

Abstract

The market's competitiveness is increasing these last few years, thus demanding that companies that strive to stay on the market look for a competitive advantage through technological transformations, the company's globalization and an increase on product's quality. This paper focuses on the technological transformations, proposing an economical viability study on the automation of a packaging process, making the decision making of the managers easier. The data gathering was done through an interview with the manager of the company in question, thus being able to apply the gathered data on the financial managing tools, such as net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), payback, profitability index (PI) and break-even point. To have a comparison between the process with and without automation, a simulation was performed where the company apply all of their profits on their savings account, demonstrating that the investment presents a good financial return and a great increase in productivity, product's standardization and process' efficiency.