Redução do tempo de setup em uma máquina de sopro via extrusão em uma indústria de cosméticos

Abstract

The hygiene, perfumery and cosmetics has been showing significant and continuous performance indicators. This market makes the high competition encourages companies to the constant search for improvement and professionalization. In this environment, the lean philosophy which is translated by the Toyota Production System (TPS) emerges as one of the ways to achieve such a result for most organizations as its main objective is the identification and elimination of waste and reduces costs as well. The philosophy emphasizes the importance of reducing the setup time as predecessor activity for the lean manufacturing implementation, which contributes directly to the elimination of losses and increasing flexibility. In this context, this paper aims to present the proposed method to reduce the setup time of a blowing machine via extrusion. The methodology includes a case study of nine stages and resulted in the decrease of approximately 50% of the exchange time and minimum production batch 70%, reflecting the increased flexibility in production and better service to customers' demands.