Aplicação da simulação discreta para redução do tempo total das trocas de gaiolas e navalhas em um laminador de perfis de uma siderúrgica

Abstract

Currently, the steel mill companies to remain in the market, depend on flexibility and speed in the production process in order to allow the prompt fulfillment of production orders, guaranteeing the level of customer satisfaction. The lack of flexibility in production, impacts on the entire production chain, causing financial imbalance due to the loss of market. An alternative that aims to solve this question would be the reduction in the systemic and continuous form of the time of the exchanges of the stands and cutters. This would give companies greater flexibility and competitiveness in the market. The present work studied and analyzed the process mentioned in a steel mill through the development of a discrete simulation project aimed at improving the process. FLEXSIM software was used to construct the computational model. Several improvement scenarios were proposed, which presented a significant reduction in process time, making it a more efficient system.