Sistema de planeación y programación de actividades para los centros corporativos de reciclaje en Cuenca mediante simulación de procesos

Abstract

Solid waste management is a challenge for today's society, due to its complexity, its constant increase, and the general lack of interest of citizens. To counteract this problem, local governments have implemented many programs, in the case of Cuenca, associations have been incorporated. in charge of managing the recovery of materials in the so-called Corporate Recycling Centers (CCR), resulting in ineffective and disorderly managed processes implying low productivity, therefore the present investigative work has the purpose of building a planning and scheduling activities in the CCRs to increase their productivity. The work begins by developing the survey and diagnosis of the current production system, which is essential to determine the productive environment in which the CCR develops, and in this way, it was possible to select the methodology of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) with tools from of Lean Manufacturing. Later it was necessary to study the productive capacities, as well as to forecast the quantities of future arrival. When applying TOC, the restrictive process, and some ways of exploiting and raising it were determined, to verify its impact on production, the simulation of discrete events was used, resulting in a considerable increase in the productivity of the system. Finally, strategies and tools such as 5S and TPM were determined for the improvement of the production process in accordance with the result of the validation of the proposed system, considering the management of the organization.