Estudo e análise dos processos de manufatura para redução de custos: estudo de caso em um fabricante de equipamentos para mineração.

Abstract

Today the mining market in Brazil is hot seen big events that will occur in the country. Another market, not so different from this, is the recycling of material from construction, today is high because of the new requirements in relation to the environment, therefore organizations providers of these markets should be aware. For an organization to keep in any market, beyond product quality, it must present a sales price competitive against their competitors. But that does not mean a reduction in profits, which would cause the company to lose money. To achieve the goal of competitive prices the company can adopt techniques to reduce expenses and especially cost both in their products and in their process. This summarizes in adopting manufacturing strategies aligned with the Strategic Management of the organization, which values the profit, the existence of the company in the market and the company recognition as an innovator. A good product review with a multidisciplinary team assists in raising critical points which increase the cost and can be changed to reduce the cost and still meet the requirements of the product in operation. For such a feat can be take into consideration the Kaizen system cost reduction which quest continuous improvement and their analyzes proposed in relation to the manufacturing process and the product itself, Reverse Engineering and Desing For Manufacturing and Assembly to re-design remodeling and product testing and comparing it with other existing products, aligned the information collected and the industrial structure of the organization to reduce costs in order to practice a more competitive selling price. Another means was the use of outsourcing as a competitive strategy. In this present work in a company equipment manufacturer for these markets, demonstrates a analysis for cost reduction in one part of the conveyor belts, where we get a reduction of up to R$5,000.00 in selling price, making it more competitive without reducing profits.