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For The Poly Furniture Factory Example in Lab 4, Section L4.3

The document contains instructions and results for several simulation exercises. It summarizes the key entities, operations, utilization rates, inventory levels, time statistics and costs from simulations of a furniture factory, bank ATM, tube supply chain, and warehouse. Pie charts and histograms are used to analyze state percentages and inventory levels over time. The simulations aim to understand process flows, bottlenecks, idle times and costs.

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For The Poly Furniture Factory Example in Lab 4, Section L4.3

The document contains instructions and results for several simulation exercises. It summarizes the key entities, operations, utilization rates, inventory levels, time statistics and costs from simulations of a furniture factory, bank ATM, tube supply chain, and warehouse. Pie charts and histograms are used to analyze state percentages and inventory levels over time. The simulations aim to understand process flows, bottlenecks, idle times and costs.

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Tenorio, Mark Lester D.

Althea Mendoza – Natividad, MSIE

Systems Simulation Professor

Lab Exercises 3

1. For the Poly Furniture Factory example in Lab 4, Section L4.3,

A. Make a state graph and a pie graph for the splitter and the lathe.
B. Find the percentage of time the splitter and the lathe are idle

State Graph for both Splitter and Lathe.

Lathe: Splitter:

Percentage Time the Splinter and Lathe are Idle.


2. For the Poly Furniture Factory example in Lab 4, Section L4.4,
A. Make histograms of the contents of the oven and the paint booth. Make sure the bar width is
set equal to one. What information can you gather from these histograms?
B. Plot a pie chart for the various states of the entity Painted_Logs. What percentage of time the
Painted_Logs are in operation?
C. Make a time series plot of the oven and the paint booth contents. How would you explain these
plots?

Above histogram clearly shows that at first couple of hours in the operation cycle the Paint Booth
accommodate more raw materials while the oven does not. This clearly shows that the oven is waiting
for the materials that comes out from the painting booth before it start its own operation making its
data very reliant to the data that the painting booth is giving. As time pass by, we can see that the
painting booth starting to get less materials while the oven still has to process the materials that is
coming out from the painting booth and as the graph suggest they have a different rate of operation as
being showed above.

As the graph shows, painted log has a total percentage time in the
operation of 16.19%.
Based on the time plot
value of the contents
for both Painting Booth
and the Oven, We can
clearly see that the
number of the materials
being processed by both
operations at a given
time are not identical
aside from the starting
hours of the operations,
means as the operation
runs longer the more the data varies in terms of materials that are being processed by the operations.

3. For the Bank of USA ATM example in Lab 4, Section L4.2,

A. Plot a pie chart for the various states of the ATM customer.
B. What is the percentage of time the ATM customer is in process (using the ATM)?

Based on this pie graph on the side, there


are only 2 states for the entity “ATM
Customer” in the process of the ATM
simulation. 23.67% of the whole
simulation the Customer is at a blocked
state while 76.33% of the whole
simulation shows that the customer is at
the operation or processing state.
4. Run the Tube Distribution Supply Chain example model (logistcs.mod from the Demo subdirectory)
for 40 hours. What are the various entities modeled in this example? What are the various operations
and processes modeled in this example? Look at the results and find:
A. The percentage utilization of the locations Mill and the Process Grades Threads.
B. The capacities of Inventory and Inventory 2–6. The maximum contents of Inventory and
Inventory 2–6.
C. The idle time percent of the location Mill.
D. The percent utilization of the resources Transport 1–5 and Forklift 1–6.
E. What are the various states (in percentages) of the location Process Grades Threads?

The various entities modeled in these simulations are:

The various operations and processes modeled in this simulation are:

 Scrap
 Furnacing
 Milling
 Inspecting
 Non-Destructive Test
 Inventory Operation
 Shipping to Locations such as Pipe Processor, Distributor, and Inspection Company
 Receiving and Unloading

The percentage utilization of the locations Mill and the Process Grades Threads.
The capacities of Inventory and Inventory 2–6. The maximum contents of Inventory and Inventory 2–
6.

The idle time percent of the location Mill.

Operation Time: 25%

Idle Time: 62.09%

Blocked Time: 12.91%


The percent utilization of the resources Transport 1–5 and Forklift 1–6.

Resources Percent Utilization


Transport 1 46.46
Transport 2 39.67
Transport 3 40.83
Transport 4 99.09
Transport 5 14.17
Fork 1 9.33
Fork 2 5.47
Fork 3 5.58
Fork 4 13.67
Fork 5 18.75
Fork 6 14.17

The various states (in percentages) of the location Process Grades Threads.

This graph shows the various states of


the Process Grade Threads. There are
2 states the operation and the idle
state. 84.46% of the time. The Process
is under operation state while 15.54%
of the time it is on an idle state.
5. Run the Warehouse model (deaerco.mod from the Demo subdirectory) for 100 hours. Run only
Scenario 1.Go into the Simulation → Options menu and change the Run Hours from 10 to 100.

A. What are the average values of inventory of Inventory Aisle 1–12?


B. What is the average Time to Fill, Box, and Check?
C. What is the Average Time in System?
D. What are the cost of customer order, receiving order, and the sum total of cost per order?
E. What are the percentage idle times for Checker 1 and Checker 2?
F. What are the utilizations of Boxers 1–4 and the average utilization of all the Boxers?

The average values of inventory of Inventory Aisle 1–12.

The average Time to Fill, Box, and Check.

The Average Time in System.

Cost of customer order, receiving order, and the sum total of cost per order
The percentage idle times for Checker 1 and Checker 2.

Utilizations of Boxers 1–4 and the average utilization of all the Boxers.

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