Daily production control at a chicken slaughterhouse

• Grant number: 97/07444-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Innovative Research in Small Business - PIPE
• Start date: January 01, 1998
• End date: October 31, 2001
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Industrial Electronics, Electronic Systems and Controls
• Principal Investigator: Miguel Taube Netto
• Grantee: Miguel Taube Netto
• Company: Unisoma Matemática Ltda
• City: Campinas

Abstract

Unisoma developed and introduced the PIPA system in Sadia, from 1989 to 1997: PIPA is the Portuguese acronym forIntegrated Poultry Production Planning. This system is made up of various modules based on mathematical and statistical techniques, aimed at optimally concatenating the decision-taking processes through the entire integrated chicken production chain, ranging from the production of oneday-old chicks to the consumer market. One of the critical points in this production chain is the daily production control in the slaughterhouses. Classification of the products by weight requires dynamic weighing procedures. Unisoma is developing a weighing system using computer viewing techniques, associating the images of the chicken carcasses with their respective weights. This system enables production flows to be programmed better, since weighing takes place immediately before chilling the carcasses, about an hour before these carcasses go to the reweighing and classification point, thus enabling better production flow. This project aims to complete the development of a prototype to be installed at Sadia’s Toledo (PR) plant. (AU)