INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY

IE-422: Industrial Systems Simulation

Homework # 1

Chapter 3
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Problem 1:
Open Model 3-1 from Book Example and do the following modification:
In the Create module, change the Value 5 to 2.5 for the mean of the exponential distribution for Time Between
Arrivals. Make five replications and compare the results. To see the results for each of the five replications
individually, you will need to open the Category by Replication report.

Performance Measure Replication 1 Replication 2 Replication 3 Replication 4 Replication 5

Total production
Avg. waiting time in Q
Max. waiting time in Q
Avg. total time in SYS
Max. total time in SYS
Avg. # of parts in Q
Max. # of parts in Q
Drill-press utilization

Problem 2:
Modify Model 3-1 with the following changes:
a) Add a second machine to which all parts go immediately after exiting the first machine for a separate kind
of processing (for example, the first machine is drilling, and the second machine is washing). Processing
times at the second machine are drawn from the same distribution as for the first machine. Run the
simulation for 480 minutes instead of 20 minutes and gather all the statistics as before, plus the time in
queue, queue length, and utilization at the second machine.
b) Immediately after the second machine, there’s a pass/fail inspection that takes a constant 4.5 minutes to
carry out and has a 75% chance of a passing result; queueing is possible for the single inspector, and the
queue is first-in, first-out. All parts exit the system regardless of whether they pass the test or not. Run
the simulation for 480 minutes gather all the statistics.

Dr. Mohammed Basingab Semester 1, 2022

 INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY
Performance Measure Part (a)
Total production
Average waiting time in queue (Drill-press)
Average waiting time in queue (Washer)
Maximum waiting time in queue (Drill-press)
Maximum waiting time in queue (Washer)
Average total time in system
Maximum total time in system
Average number of parts in queue (Drill-press)
Average number of parts in queue (Washer)
Maximum number of parts in queue (Drill-press)
Maximum number of parts in queue (Washer)
Drill-press utilization
Washing machine utilization
Performance Measure Part (b)
Total production
Average waiting time in queue (Inspector)
Maximum waiting time in queue (Inspector)
Average total time per entity
Maximum total time per entity
Average number of parts in queue (Inspector)
Maximum number of parts in queue (Inspector)
Inspector utilization
Number of parts pass
Number parts fail

Problem 3:
In Model 3-1, suppose that instead of having a single source of parts, there are three sources of arrival, one for
each of three different kinds of parts that arrive: Blue, Green, and Red. For each color of arriving part, interarrival
times are exponentially distributed with a mean of 16 minutes. Run the simulation for 480 minutes and compute
the same performance measures as for Model 3-1. Make just a single replication.

Performance Measure Value

Total production
Average waiting time in queue
Maximum waiting time in queue
Average number of parts in queue
Maximum number of parts in queue
Drill-press utilization

Total time in system Average (minutes per part) Maximum (minutes per part)
Blue parts
Green parts
Red parts

Dr. Mohammed Basingab Semester 1, 2022