Resumo:
With the advent of Industry 4.0 and the approach of a connected production system using Industry 4.0 technologies, the adoption of traceability systems becomes an essential application of this new industrial era. The work takes into account the need for small and medium-sized companies to improve the processes carried out, through the use of technologies mentioned in the pillars of Industry 4.0. In this context, the work proposes to develop a traceability system applied to the production chain of stainless-steel capacitor tanks with the reading of the bar code in stainless steel AISI 304 and stainless steel AISI 409 of one of the units of a Brazilian company located in Itajubá, south of Minas Gerais. Initially, a systematic literature review conducted based on the PRISMA protocol was adopted, covering the Scopus and Web of Science databases, which allowed the selection of the most relevant articles on this topic. The methodology used was Action Research in which it was possible to develop and implement the proposed traceability system called RAST 4.0. Through a pilot batch, it was possible to collect data and analyze them through the stages of the PDCA cycle; thus, an Action Plan was developed with the purpose of solving the flaws found. Continuing with the action-research stages, with the application of the Action Plan, the company achieved improvements through simple actions, thus generating the 2nd Pilot Batch, which was monitored and tested within the process, resulting in time taken for each of tasks and maintaining traceability from the beginning to the shipment of the capacitor tank to the customer, through internal traceability.
