Productive process improvement to elaborate cane train baskets, using Coloured Petri nets

Abstract

The search for improvements in production processes that serve a variant market with flexibility and profitability is a subject widely discussed in diverse sectors of the industry. The approach to this type of problem frequently requires a structured and detailed formal study of production systems using tools such as Coloured Petri Nets (CPN). This tool provides a method to propose and evaluate improvements in the system. Considering the production system as a system that evolves through discrete events, this article presents a procedure with a Top-Down approach to identify, simulate and evaluate the current state of a production system using CPN, this model is used to study improvements in order to analyze the impact on the performance of the production system.