DECISION MAKING IN A LEMON PROCESSING PLANT USING DATA RECONCILIATION

Abstract

Argentina is one of the largest producers of citrus fruit and Tucuman is the principal producer of lemons worldwide. The lemon agro industrial complex of Tucuman has reached a high degree of competitiveness. In fact, large quantities of fruit and of industrial derivatives are produced in that province, which are placed mainly on the demanding international market. Data reconciliation and gross error detection were performed on a lemon processing plant. The results of the reconciliation allowed the detection of malfunctioning of certain instruments. Data reconciliation was used to compare two different configurations of the manufacturing process, and also allowed to detect a better variable values acquisition system by reallocating the existing instruments and incorporating new ones to the system.