Proposta de automação para uma agroindústria de nutrição animal

Abstract

High competitiveness requires that companies work continuously to improve processes in order to achieve satisfactory levels of quality and costs, for this is important knowledge and use of technology as forms of innovation and improvement of the production process. The overall objective of this study was to present the cost / benefit in the automation of an agroindustry producing food for livestock, demonstrating the advances in the manufacturing process of the company. The work presented here was a case study in an agroindustry in Rondonópolis-MT, and a descriptive and correlational or explanatory research, in which they were observed through participatory diagnosis, with analysis of data and information that were made available by the agribusiness for the construction of feasibility analysis and confrontation between operational models and methods. The acquisition of credit is necessary only to enable the implementation of the new automation process, since the contracted credit line offers a grace period of one year for the beginning of the amortization of the capital released. From another point of view, there is a reduction in labor costs in production, in the month following the implementation of the automated process, guaranteeing a positive cash flow until the end of the amortization of the contracted capital, allowing capital accumulation for the utilization of resources surplus as Working Capital. The economic benefits derived from the automation of the agroindustry will include: traceability, assertiveness, less variation of rhythm, increase of speed in the productive process, improvement in profit margins of the company, increase of productivity and reliability in the schedules, improving the flow of logistics. Automation brings benefits in production, such as reduction of rework, absence of defects in formulations, standardization and quality of the final product, improvement in the working environment and improvement of the company / brand image in the regional market.