Identificação e avaliação de variáveis críticas no processo de produção da cana-de-açúcar / Identification and evaluation of the critical variables in the sugar cane production process

AUTOR(ES)

Cassiano Mota de Campos

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Sugar cane is one of the cultures more important economically in Brazil, which is at the same time the leading producer and exporter in the word. The perspectives for the next few years are expansion of cultivated area in order to attend the demand, mainly the international market. Besides the increasing of production, giving the expansion of cultivated area, it is of the great importance the maintenance and the increasing of the crop productivity optimizing in this way the resources already available. One of the alternatives for the increasing the productivity is the improving of the productivity process. Among them the plant, cultivation and harvest should be enhanced. Due to the operational issues and the involved costs it is necessary to determine the most important operations for the production process and set the patterns to be applied by them. The aim of this work was to identify and evaluate the critical variables in the sugar cane production process. The work was carried out in two ways. The first one consisted of the identification of the critical variables that were present along the several stages of sugar cane production and the FMEA - Failure Mode and Effects Analysis- was the technique used for the evaluation. The second stage consisted of the evaluation in the field to find the most critical variables and the capacity of the process. The results made possible to identify seventeen variables. The most critical of them were space among furrows and the harvesting of raw sugar cane. Concerning the space among furows the current guide systems, automatic and manual, are not able to attend the limits of tolerance adopted by the mill. It is necessary to have this limits reviewed and/or analyse some new alternatives for the improvements in the systems, in order to attend the wanted patterns.

ASSUNTO(S)

qualidade total fmea qualidade do processo – capacidade cana-de-açúcar fmea mechanization agricultural sugar cane quality process – capacity controle estatístico do processo mecanização agrícola total quality statistical process control

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