Applied autonomous maintenance in the improvement of production quality: A case study

Ano: 2016 | Volume: 2 | Número: 7

Autores: Cloves Wanderlande Torres Ferreira; Jandecy Cabal Leite

Palavras-chave: maintenance; total productive maintenance (tpm); production and technological advance

Resumo Inglês:

The global scenario of the major economic developed countries is a reflection of technological advances making companies competing and strategists. The objective of this paper is to analyze the current maintenance situation at the company studied, identifying technical actions  with  immediate  results  and  implementing the  Autonomous  Maintenance  (MA)  to  improve  the  performance  of  a  white  line production process in a company at the Industrial Pole of Manaus. It was achieved with this, to identify the problem in its early stages and encourage the operator to have a closer relationship with his process by detecting and resolving the possible failures. The data used were obtained from the company during the period from December 2015 until July 2016, and are related to stops identified by a leak detector.  The  applied methods  are  the  qualitative  and  quantitative  approach.  The information  was  obtained from employees  of  the assembly line area, production leaders and representatives of maintenance, through questionnaires obtained from data files (document analysis)  and  a  history  of  reports of  problems.  The  results  achieved  are: the  application  of  the  MA  in  the  company,  the  increase  in productivity; reducing the stop time of the production line, the availability of maintenance personnel to solve other problems, greater involvement of operators with their activity, less time in the implementation of equipment maintenance; greater involvement between maintenance and production. These improvements turned the company more competitive and sustainable.