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Assignment One For Food (2015)

The document describes a simulation model of a dump truck operation that hauls coal from a mine to a railroad, with trucks loading at one of two loaders and then weighing at a scale before returning. It provides probability distributions for loading time, weighing time, and travel time. The purpose of the simulation is to estimate the utilization of the loaders and scale over an 8 hour period and to calculate the mean response time and proportion of response times greater than 30 minutes.

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Assignment One For Food (2015)

The document describes a simulation model of a dump truck operation that hauls coal from a mine to a railroad, with trucks loading at one of two loaders and then weighing at a scale before returning. It provides probability distributions for loading time, weighing time, and travel time. The purpose of the simulation is to estimate the utilization of the loaders and scale over an 8 hour period and to calculate the mean response time and proportion of response times greater than 30 minutes.

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Assignment one

Course: Food process modelling and simulation


Target group: FEPT 5th year students.
Copy each other is strictly forbidden and result is Zero mark.
1) Six dump trucks are used to haul coal from the entrance of a small mine to the
railroad. Figure 1 provides a schematic of the dump-truck operation. Each truck is
loaded by one of two loaders. After a loading, the truck immediately moves to the scale,
to be weighed as soon as possible. Both the loaders and the scale have a first-come-
first-served waiting line (or queue) for trucks. Travel time from a loader to the scale is
considered negligible. After being weighed, a truck begins a travel time (during which
time the truck unloads) and then afterward returns to the loader queue. The distributions
of loading time, weighing time, and travel time are given in Tables 1, 2, and 3,
respectively, the purpose of the simulation is to estimate the loader and scale utilizations
(percentage of time busy). a. it is desired to estimate mean response time and the
proportion of response times which are greater than 30 minutes. A response time for a
truck begins when that truck arrives at the loader queue and ends when the truck finishes
weighing. Add the model components and cumulative statistics needed to estimate
these two measures of system performance. Simulate for 8 hours.

Table 1 Distribution of Loading time for dump trucks


Cumulative Random Digit
Loading time Probability
Probability Assignment
5 0.30 0.30 1-3
10 0.50 0.80 4-8
15 0.20 1.00 9-0
Table 2 Distribution of weighing time for the dump trucks
Cumulative Random Digit
Weighing Time Probability
Probability Assignment
12 0.70 0.70 1-7
16 0.30 1.00 8-0

Table 3 Distribution of Travel time for the dump trucks


Cumulative Random Digit
Travel time Probability
Probability Assignment
40 0.40 0.40 1-4
60 0.30 0.70 5-7
80 0.20 0.90 8-9
100 0.10 1.00 0
Assume five (5) trucks are at the loader and one is at the scale at a time 0. The clear
schematic figure is located bellow at t= 0

Question:

A) List all of the System state (1%)


B) State Event time of the system (1%)
C) List Entities of the system (1%)
D) List all Activities in the system (1%)
E) Prepare full simulation table for the system (3%)
F) Calculate total busy time of both loaders (2%)
G) Calculate the time for scale (2%)
H) Calculate average loader and scale (2%)
I) Calculate utilization of the systems (2%)

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