Track: Simulation Competition

Abstract

The simulation model was based on a real data of a layout in a Chemical Factory. The factory had bottleneck points along its system mainly because of the chosen layout, which had a lot of movement excess and had not a very justifiable reason for its arrangement. With the improvement, the factory was able to supply its annual demand. The discrete model was created in order to analyze the similarities between the simulation and the actual numbers found in the paper. The group recreated the layout of the production system and also the stock inventory in the Warehouse waiting for transport. The products are stannous chloride and sodium fluorsilicate. The factory receives raw material of the components everyday by an arrival schedule and, if there’s a problem with the material, it’ll be rejected. When they’re ready, each product passes through their own production sequence and then they are both carried by a fork-lift all the way down to the warehouse. They are now inspected (2% of rejection) and put on a pallet (each pallet receives 8 boxes) to be placed on an 8x8 rack. The final products are now ready to be transported. At the end of the simulation, the results were close to the real layout proposal and there were no problems or bottlenecks identified in the model.