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Simulation of the Pig Iron transportation system in companhia siderurgica tubarao: Arcelor group

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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The objective of this paper is to present the development of a simulation model involving materials handling in a large steel company from Arcelor Group. The project had a return of more than 2 million USD and points to a kind of application that seems to be a typical case where static analysis may cause great errors comparing to a dynamic one (because the results were also observed in another Brazilian steel company). The project focused in the processes involving pig iron transportation between the blast furnaces and its discharge in the steelmaking plant. It allowed the evaluation of several operational parameters such as for the 7.5 Mt/year production rhythm, a great increase from the actual production of 5 Mt/year. "Bottlenecks" in the flow were identified through the results and the scenarios gave the support to the decision of increasing the number of torpedo-cars and locomotives in the system.
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    WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
    December 2006
    2429 pages
    ISBN:1424405017

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    • IIE: Institute of Industrial Engineers
    • ASA: American Statistical Association
    • IEICE ESS: Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Engineering Sciences Society
    • IEEE-CS\DATC: The IEEE Computer Society
    • SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
    • NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • (SCS): The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
    • INFORMS-CS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences-College on Simulation

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    WSC06: Winter Simulation Conference 2006
    December 3 - 6, 2006
    California, Monterey

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