Innovative simulation project of the complete cutting and transport lines, processes including cuts, production orders, staff, products and traffic, permit the evaluation of investment alternatives.
Description of the Project:
Through their brand Super-Cerdo, Agrosuper represents the leading brand in the pork market in Chile with over 50% participation.
The Rosario Slaughterhouse, built in 2001, is located in the sixth region of Chile. It is one of the most modern pork processing plants and with the greatest capacity in Latin America. It has a processing capacity of 500 pigs per hour, nearly 2580 people work in it and it provides products not only to Chile but also to several destinations abroad such as Europe and Asia.
Our Importance:
Poch develops an innovative computer simulation project of all the cutting process and transportation lines, thoroughly representing the complete operation of the heart of the plant. The high complexity of the process and the great amount of variables and elements that influence the production make the simulation the most suitable way for the evaluation, the investments estimation, and productivity improvement.
To experiment in a real situation is not always possible; it involves plant availability, test and error, coordination and resources of all kinds. The simulation of Rosario Processing Plant, enables its management team to observe the performance of the plant when dealing with different production orders and composition alternatives, in addition to the option of testing different staff configurations in each one of the lines, parameters of the system such as the speed of transport lines, the entrance rate of pigs and the dimension of distribution and cutting lines.
On the other hand, the developed simulation allows the Rosario Slaughterhouse to evaluate different options of investment projects, such as automation of sections or acquisition of new equipment from the point of view of the plant’s performance and operation, observe future behaviors, detect bottlenecks, resources efficiency, product value.
Essential benefit:
To be able to count on this tool permits the daily production planning taking into account aspects as broad as flows, staff requirements with time, process lines saturation, necessary input, and required storage. On the other hand it allows the evaluation of improvement projects, its impact in the production, costs, appearance of new bottlenecks, delimiting the required investment amounts substantially and improving the result of these projects.