ENGENHARIA DE MANUTENÇÃO APLICADA À MÁQUINA COLHEDORA DE CAFÉ: uma opção para reduzir o custo de mecanização

Abstract

The coffee production has a large participation in the income of the people in the southern region of Minas Gerais, because through the coffee generates employment income in several segments. Brazil's coffee has a high consumption in the foreign market causing the producers to increase production, however with the increase of production arises the problem of raising labor to harvest manually, this difficulty requires that coffee growers mechanize their harvesting process, the mechanized melt has some benefits because it reduces the cost, reduces the time of harvest and gives greater predictability in the operations with the crop, these differentials give greater financial income to the producer and allows to reduce production costs. However, to obtain the mechanized harvest requires a high initial investment being amortized with in the subsequent harvest years, the capital for this change, most of the time, is only used by large producers, being unattended by small and medium growers bearing. This work is justified in allowing the access of the smaller producers to the mechanization of the harvest with quality and high yield, applying modifications in old machines that do not propitiate the functionalities of the modern harvesters. In order to create the prototype, a KOPLEX model was used, manufactured in 1988 by the Jacto company. This machine is originally equipped with only vibrating rods for the coffee ground, which when removed from the plant is thrown directly into the soil. does not occur in modern machines because coffee is collected and transported to the buckets in the act of the derriça and no manpower is used to transport the fruit. The purpose of the modifications is to insert the same functionalities existing in the present machines through the inclusion of segregation systems and transport of the harvested coffee. However, it is expected that a low financial investment will be made available to smaller producers.