Incremento de la productividad en empresas de manufactura, mediante la optimización de procesos con modelos y simulación por computadora. caso práctico aplicado a proalva una empresa nacional dedicada a la elaboración de pulpa de fruta : optimización de procesos productivos en planta.

Abstract

Worldwide, manufacturing industries focus on planning their production in such a way as to optimize resources for the satisfaction of buyers according to demand. The objective of this research project is to design a proposal to optimize the production processes of the Ecuadorian company PROALVA belonging to the food industry sector, dedicated to the production of frozen fruit pulp. To achieve the objective, aggregate planning models were developed, comparing the solution of four models of traditional aggregate production plans with respect to a plan that is based on mathematical modeling and Linear Programming; and that was solved using the Excel Solver tool. In addition, a visual model of the passion fruit pulp manufacturing process was developed using the SIMUL8 software, with which the current state of the process was analyzed, and several proposals were tested to improve the times of each activity in the pulp manufacturing process. of frozen fruit. Finally, the results indicate that the aggregate production plan based on a linear programming model is the best method, due to its ability to minimize costs related to manufacturing and demand satisfaction.