Losses and waste reduction

In the last years, industries have also aligned their corporate strategies with public policies and participated in actions to reduce waste of raw materials at the suppliers, retailers, and consumers, even though they are one of the links of the production chain where the losses and waste are relatively lower. In addition to reducing production costs in the food industry, the reduction of losses has always been a topic related to engineering that focus on the process efficiency guided by quality systems. However, the goal toward zeroing losses and waste imposed by common failures that occur in the industry in its processes.