parameters Entities Anything the model a With “New” checked, click can process, such as graphic . parts, customers, patients. Locations Fixed place where Capacity and With a “New” checked, click entities are routed for number of units graphic icon and click anywhere processing, waiting, in the layout. For a waiting line decision making, or double click the icon, change some other activity. object type to and set “Queue” other parameters. Arrival Arrival parameters Arrival location, and Click header “Entity” for the entities number of objects select the arrival entity. per arrival, total Click header and “Location” number of select the location for arrival. arrivals, Type INF for “Occurrences” frequency indicating no limit for number of arrivals during the simulation. Enter inter-arrival time parameter for “Frequency”. E.g. for exponential time with mean 2 minutes, enter e(2) min. Processing Process routing for Process Click header and “Entity” an entity Entity, Location, select an entity for processing. and operation Click header and “Location” select a location. Click header and “Operation” type operation logic. E.g.: wait N(2.4,.5) min Routing Click header and “Output” Output, select an entity for output Destination, Rule Click header and “Destination” select a location Click header and set up “Rule” one or more rules for routing the entity. Click below the last row to create alternative routing Bank with one teller; Arrival of customers follows exponential distribution with an Example 1: average of one customer every 2 minutes. Service time follows normal distribution with an average of 2.4 minutes and a standard deviation of .5 minutes. Waiting line is limited to 7 customers. Simulate the operation from to Let the warm-up period be 2 hours.
parameters Entities Anything the model can process, such as parts, customers, patients. With “New” checked, click a graphic . Locations Fixed place where entities are routed for processing, waiting, decision making, or some other activity. Capacity and number of units With “New” checked, click a graphic icon and click anywhere in the layout. For a waiting line double click the icon, change object type to “Queue” and set other parameters. Arrival Arrival parameters for the entities Arrival location, number of objects per arrival, total number of arrivals, frequency Click header “Entity” and select the arrival entity. Click header “Location” and select the location for arrival. Type INF for “Occurrences” indicating no limit for number of arrivals during the simulation. Enter inter-arrival time parameter for “Frequency”. E.g. for exponential time with mean 2 minutes, enter e(2) min. Processing Process routing for an entity Process Entity, Location, and operation Click header “Entity” and select an entity for processing. Click header “Location” and select a location. Click header “Operation” and type operation logic. E.g.: wait N(2.4,.5) min Routing Output, Destination, Rule Click header “Output” and select an entity for output Click header “Destination” and select a location Click header “Rule” and set up one or more rules for routing the entity. Click below the last row to create alternative routing Example 1: Bank with one teller; Arrival of customers follows exponential distribution with an average of one customer every 2 minutes. Service time follows normal distribution with an average of 2.4 minutes and a standard deviation of .5 minutes. Waiting line is limited to 7 customers. Simulate the operation from to Let the warm-up period be 2 hours.
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