Aplicação de princípios da teoria das restrições: um estudo de simulação em um sistema de produção

Abstract

Constantly, companies go through improvements techniques searching for competitive advantage. The Theory of Constraints (TOC) has been created exactly as an option to the traditional scheduling methods, drifting apart from them. Through simulation, this study aims to verify whether the application of TOC principles presented on the book “The Goal” can garantee perceptble improvements to a single product flow shop. From the introduction of TOC principles and experimentation of the factors Bottleneck Position and Processing Cycle Time, the monitoring of the variables Total Produced Items and average WIP in different scenarios indicated that TOC was beneficial to the presented system performance, showing that TOC can be used as competitive advantage for companies to differentiate from their concurrents.