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Improvement of Chemical Processes for the Analysis of Mineral Concentrates Using Lean Six Sigma

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Proceedings of the 4th Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym'18) (BTSym 2018)

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In a chemical laboratory of analysis of concentrates of minerals there are delays in the delivery of results report to the clients, failing to meet the deadlines; so this research aims to solve the problem through the 5 Lean Six Sigma steps that consists in: Defining, Measuring, Analyzing, Improving and Controlling (DMAIC). The findings suggested that the focus on the data collection, by the technical analyst, of the following values: the molar mass in the EDTA solution and the volumetric expense of the chemical reaction of the sample would have the greatest impact on the decrease of the retests.

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  1. Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad Peruana de Ciencas Aplicadas (UPC), Lima, Perú

    Alejandro Arone, Miguel Pariona, Ángel Hurtado, Victor Chichizola & José C. Alvarez

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  1. Faculty of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Yuzo Iano

  2. Faculty of Technology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Rangel Arthur

  3. Divisão de Engenharia Eletrônica, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica ITA, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

    Osamu Saotome

  4. Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Vânia Vieira Estrela

  5. Faculty of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Hermes José Loschi

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Arone, A., Pariona, M., Hurtado, Á., Chichizola, V., Alvarez, J.C. (2019). Improvement of Chemical Processes for the Analysis of Mineral Concentrates Using Lean Six Sigma. In: Iano, Y., Arthur, R., Saotome, O., Vieira Estrela, V., Loschi, H. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym'18). BTSym 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16053-1_52

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