Padronização de tempos na produção de polpas de frutas: um estudo baseado na cronoanálise

Abstract

Currently, companies need to understand and manage their processes efficiently, constantly seeking improvements for both the organization and the employees. Time and motion study emerges as an essential tool to analyze and optimize productive operations, defining standard times for their activities. This work aims to apply time analysis, an approach of time study in a fruit pulp company located in Russas-CE. The productive processes were mapped, and standard times for the main sub-processes of the production of the most marketed pulps, such as guava, pineapple, acerola, cashew, and passion fruit, were determined, covering from manufacturing to final storage. Based on data collection and the definition of times, improvements in productive processes were suggested, such as standardizing the quantity of pulps per box and suggesting ergonomic equipment, like pallets and manual forklifts, to reduce the physical effort of operators, aiming to optimize the calculated times and increase the operational efficiency of the company. Among the obtained results, it was observed that guava showed the highest depulping time, with 43.19 seconds, due to its higher density. On the other hand, cashew pulp recorded the shortest standard time, with 13.21 seconds, as it already arrives at the process predepulped. For the packaging of the pulps, the standard time found was 93.66 seconds, while the total time for packing a batch of 50 units was 339.19 seconds (approximately 5 minutes). Therefore, with the obtained results, the company can measure its production capacity and plan its daily production more efficiently, considering that they already have the approximate production times of each pulp, knowing which will require more production time and more labor.