TY - CHAP
T1 - Using simulation for facility layout problems
T2 - A case study of an ecuadorian handcraft chocolate company
AU - Viteri-Viteri, Diego
AU - Rodríguez-Luna, Andreé
AU - Avilés-Sacoto, Sonia
AU - Mosquera-Recalde, Galo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
PY - 2021/7/2
Y1 - 2021/7/2
N2 - During the last years, the global confectionery market has experienced an increase in their demand, being headed by chocolate due to the high consumption around the world. This performance and the expected growth represent a challenge for the confectionery market, especially for participants along the chocolate supply chain. This is the case of Cacao Company a growing handcraft chocolate company based in Ecuador, which seeks to expand to international confectionery market through the exportation of its products and whose current capacity is not enough to satisfy this expected demand. Therefore, a new facility layout design is required to cover the new demand, and it also should maintain the artisan aspects of the production process. Currently, solutions for facility layout problem (FLP) focus on design algorithms that use a from-toward table, which includes more information about the material handling system (MHS). A mixed integer programming problem (MIP) is also needed, because it finds the most efficient arrangement of the production departments within the new facility, minimizing the material handling cost (MHC). Several design alternatives generated by the MIP are evaluated through a discrete events simulation model in order to consider additional factors as relative locations of equipment, capacities, transport speeds and statistical distributed processing times at the workstations. As a result of this study, the most suitable layout alternative is selected, and its economic analysis is presented.
AB - During the last years, the global confectionery market has experienced an increase in their demand, being headed by chocolate due to the high consumption around the world. This performance and the expected growth represent a challenge for the confectionery market, especially for participants along the chocolate supply chain. This is the case of Cacao Company a growing handcraft chocolate company based in Ecuador, which seeks to expand to international confectionery market through the exportation of its products and whose current capacity is not enough to satisfy this expected demand. Therefore, a new facility layout design is required to cover the new demand, and it also should maintain the artisan aspects of the production process. Currently, solutions for facility layout problem (FLP) focus on design algorithms that use a from-toward table, which includes more information about the material handling system (MHS). A mixed integer programming problem (MIP) is also needed, because it finds the most efficient arrangement of the production departments within the new facility, minimizing the material handling cost (MHC). Several design alternatives generated by the MIP are evaluated through a discrete events simulation model in order to consider additional factors as relative locations of equipment, capacities, transport speeds and statistical distributed processing times at the workstations. As a result of this study, the most suitable layout alternative is selected, and its economic analysis is presented.
KW - Chocolate
KW - Facility layout problems
KW - Material handling
KW - Mixed integer programming
KW - Simulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85164630004&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-71579-3_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-71579-3_17
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:85164630004
SN - 9783030715786
SP - 389
EP - 434
BT - Trends in Industrial Engineering Applications to Manufacturing Process
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -