A IMPORTÂNCIA DO AVANÇO TECNOLÓGICO NA CAFEICULTURA E A OTIMIZAÇÃO DOS MÉTODOS DE MANUTENÇÃO DOS EQUIPAMENTOS

Abstract

The coffee crop in Brazil until the 1970s was all class cultivated by hand, using a lot of manpower, implementation of treatment and harvest. Over the years there have been major renovation of crops, seeking to adapt new trends of modernization. Nowadays, mechanizing coffee, like the rest of all agriculture, means the main factor to become competitive activity in the field, since the workforce is becoming increasingly scarce, more expensive and less performing. The use of appropriate machinery ensures that the farmer carries out operations at the right time, at higher yield with less arduous services. However, there are factors that limit large-scale mechanization, may cite as most important, the topography of the regions, which require the producer to the use of semi-mechanized systems. However, mechanize does not mean just buying machines, you need to combine certain machines with strategic planning of maintenance, where it ensures the perfect functioning of the components in order to make the most of the equipment avoiding losses with stops machines. Engineering has a very important role in coffee production because using proper tools helps in better utilization of resources, ensuring a perfect operation of equipment, contributing directly to the survival of the industry. May be mentioned that some tools are well implemented, can help in the optimization of maintenance processes such as FMEA (Analysis of Failure Mode and Effect), MASP (Method of Analysis and Troubleshooting), RCFA (Root Cause Analysis of Failure ) and RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance).