IMPROVING A PROCESS IN A BRAZILIAN AUTOMOTIVE PLANT APPLYING PROCESS MAPPING, DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS AND DISCRETE EVENTS SIMULATION

• Autor(a) principal: Barra Montevechi, Jose Arnaldo
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Pinho, Alexandre Ferreira de, Leal, Fabiano, Silva Marins, Fernando Augusto [UNESP], Silva Costa, Rafael Florencio da, Bruzzone, A., Longo, F., Piera, M. A., Aguilar, R. M., Frydman, C.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/194712
• topic: Design of Experiments; Discrete Events Simulation; Process Mapping

The objective of this article is to apply the Design of Experiments technique along with the Discrete Events Simulation technique in an automotive process. The benefits of the design of experiments in simulation include the possibility to improve the performance in the simulation process, avoiding trial and error to seek solutions. The methodology of the conjoint use of Design of Experiments and Computer Simulation is presented to assess the effects of the variables and its interactions involved in the process. In this paper, the efficacy of the use of process mapping and design of experiments on the phases of conception and analysis are confirmed.