Avaliação do uso de simulação como ferramenta complementar no desenvolvimento do mapeamento do fluxo de valor futuro
Abstract
Nowadays companies are part of a global environment, which makes the
market more competitive. In this context, the lean production system is very important for
companies to become more efficient and therefore competitive.
The value stream marketing is an essential tool used in the lean production
system that uses an updated and a future map of process. The stationary aspect of this tool
coupled with the need to obtain more accurate data highlighted the importance of computer
simulations to assist in the development of value stream mapping.
The present work describes all the steps of the development of a computer
model in simulation software. The main aspect of it is the representation of the lean
production system.
The different sceneries built for the model developed in this work
contributed to find the number of produced parts, dimensions of the supermarket
considering the setup timing, the time of the operation, and planned or unplanned pauses of
the machines. Therefore, it demonstrated that the simulation is a very useful tool to assist in
the construction of the value stream mapping.