Energy Optimization of the Post-Harvest Area of Roses in Quiroga, Ecuador: A Comparative Analysis

Joffre Espin-Castro, Saravana Thirumuruganandham, Hugo Yánez-Rueda, Erika Chuncha-Ashqui, Doris Clavon-Taipe, Bryan Conrado-Mestanza, Byron Abril-Flores, Muthukrishnavellaisamy Kumarasamy

2022

Abstract

This research document seeks to simulate the post-harvest area of roses in a floricultural company in order to analyse improvement parameters. The study starts with the bibliographic and documentary methodology, as well as experimentation. Time - movement study and the path diagram are used to build the simulation model using FlexSim software and establish the probability distributions resembling a real process. Through the analysis of the process, it was found that theoretically the Company produces 546 bunches of 20 roses per week based on the bottleneck restriction. When it is compared with the simulation, there is an error of 0.08%, resulting on an exact similarity to the real conditions. The simulation work concludes that by identifying the bottleneck restriction respect to the pre-assortment and packaging process, which, although it has two stations, it is the main limiting factor. Therefore, experimentation is developed to exploit the bottleneck, verifying that with 3 stations the production is stabilized and a 4.39% increase in capacity respect to 546 units capacity production. On the other hand, there will also be a 0.90% increase in bunches weekly.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Espin-Castro J., Thirumuruganandham S., Yánez-Rueda H., Chuncha-Ashqui E., Clavon-Taipe D., Conrado-Mestanza B., Abril-Flores B. and Kumarasamy M. (2022). Energy Optimization of the Post-Harvest Area of Roses in Quiroga, Ecuador: A Comparative Analysis. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing - Volume 1: ISAIC; ISBN 978-989-758-622-4, SciTePress, pages 138-149. DOI: 10.5220/0011907200003612

in Bibtex Style

@conference{isaic22,
author={Joffre Espin-Castro and Saravana Thirumuruganandham and Hugo Yánez-Rueda and Erika Chuncha-Ashqui and Doris Clavon-Taipe and Bryan Conrado-Mestanza and Byron Abril-Flores and Muthukrishnavellaisamy Kumarasamy},
title={Energy Optimization of the Post-Harvest Area of Roses in Quiroga, Ecuador: A Comparative Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing - Volume 1: ISAIC},
year={2022},
pages={138-149},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011907200003612},
isbn={978-989-758-622-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing - Volume 1: ISAIC
TI - Energy Optimization of the Post-Harvest Area of Roses in Quiroga, Ecuador: A Comparative Analysis
SN - 978-989-758-622-4
AU - Espin-Castro J.
AU - Thirumuruganandham S.
AU - Yánez-Rueda H.
AU - Chuncha-Ashqui E.
AU - Clavon-Taipe D.
AU - Conrado-Mestanza B.
AU - Abril-Flores B.
AU - Kumarasamy M.
PY - 2022
SP - 138
EP - 149
DO - 10.5220/0011907200003612
PB - SciTePress