Simulação de eventos aplicada em uma indústria de café

Abstract

The present work consists in the accomplishment of a research to know the available production capacity installed in a coffee factory, located in Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais. The research began with the knowledge and mapping of the productive process of the factory. The mapping of a process consists of the description of the sequencing of stages of a productive process, whose purpose is to represent the transformation of inputs into finished products and services. Subsequently the data collection and analysis of each process operation was performed. This method is often used for the simulation application. The simulation is an aspect of the operational research whose purpose is to evaluate the behavior of a system and to make experiments of a future scenario in order to aid in the decision making. This technique can be used to know the productive capacity of the processes and the organization. In this way it was possible to measure the productive capacity as well as identify bottlenecks for which improvements were proposed. The knowledge of productive capacity can influence the strategies of the company, as well as of the supply chain that it is inserted.