Dimensionamento e balanceamento de linha: estudo de caso para melhorias dos recursos de produção em uma indústria de laticínios

Abstract

The companies seek to optimize their resources to stay on the competitive market and increase their profits. A detailed work which have a good theoretical basis of production makes the better use of all resources involved in the production. This work has the purpose to balance and scale the study line, utilizing the productivity management tool. The broached study presents an improvement method in which it is possible to optimize the line resources. To utilize the tool, it is necessary to realize an area study, a cronoanalysis of the involved activities, a historical research of many factors which interferes in the production, and the demand that makes necessary the results applications. To visualize the results progress, it is necessary to use the indicators of utilization, efficiency e productivity. It was necessary to realize a data collection, to make the analysis that based the specific objectives analyzing from this work the application of cronoanalysis as method to reduce unnecessary costs, making it viable to the firm, once that it serves to measure and establish real productive capabilities providing profitability to the firm. The results obtained in this study proceeded in improving the resources available on the line, and this caused the reduction of one person in the production line, readjusting in a better manner the resources.