USO DA SIMULAÇÃO COMO FERRAMENTA DE APOIO À TOMADA DE DECISÕES EM UMA EMPRESA METALÚRGICA: estudo de Caso

Abstract

This work analyzes the creation of scenarios in the ARENA® simulation software that show the increase of the level of use of the equipment used in the stamping process of a given product, showing the possibilities that a company can have when doing the management of its equipment, hand of work and processing time. The use of the simulation is necessary due to its advantages, such as low or nonexistent financial cost and also the non-interference in the day to day of the company, thus facilitating the verification of hypotheses and decision making in the virtual environment. The objective is to increase the use of the productive power of the company, by increasing the level of use of equipment in companies, seeking to reduce idle production. Thus using the simulation to show and test the hypotheses that can achieve the best possible result. This purpose will be obtained from the case study that was developed initially through a literature review on systems, modeling and simulation in order to know the advantages and disadvantages of using these methods and later by an analysis of the process of metal stamping of a metallurgical company to create the model used in the computer simulation tool. Three scenarios were analyzed, with varying amounts of resources.