Design and operation of a dairy plant by means of a decision support tool based on the Petri nets paradigm

  1. Latorre-Biel, J.I. 1
  2. Jiménez-Macías, E. 1
  3. Blanco-Fernández, J. 1
  4. Martínez-Cámara, E. 1
  5. Sánez-Díez, J.C. 1
  6. Pérez-Parte, M. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Libro:
26th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium, EMSS 2014

Editorial: Dime University of Genoa

ISBN: 9788897999324

Año de publicación: 2014

Páginas: 588-593

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84912076786 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Resumen

Despite a worldwide presence, the characteristics of dairy industry may vary largely from one country to another and also between the different regions of a country. Farmers can form co-operatives or operate individually, while processors may transform very different amounts of milk into a diversity of dairy products. Moreover, the variety of dairy products that can be found in the market, the short-term expiry date of some of them, as well as the strong competition for a saturated market, lead to a complex environment, where the design and operation of the dairy factories require decision support tools for helping the decision makers. In this paper, it is considered the development of a decision support system for improving the survival chances of dairy plants in a competitive worldwide market. This tool is based in the implementation of an optimisation process, where the performance evaluation of the feasible decisions is performed by means of simulation. The objective of the decision making covers the complete life cycle of the dairy plant, from its design to its operation (Jimenez et al. 2014).