Name : Nonia Fatima Da Costa Martins

Nim : 1201173475
Class : TI-41-INT

Assignment

1. What are two specific questions that simulation might help answer in a bank? In a
manufacturing facility? In a dental office?
Answer : Two specific questions that simulation might help answer in a bank is :
 How many bankers are needed to meet the required level of service?
 What is the best way to direct customers through the system?

Two Specific questions that simulation might help answer in a manufacturing

facility is :
 How many operating personnel are needed to meet required production levels?
 What are the bottlenecks in the system, ad how can they be eliminated?

Two Specific questions that simulation might help answer in a dental office is :
 How many dentists are needed?
 What is the optimum size of waiting areas?

2. Does simulation itself optimize a system design? Explain.

Answer : Simulation itself optimizes, but scenarios that satisfy defined feasibility
constraints can be automatically run and analyzed using special goal- seeking algorithms.

3. A restaurant gets extremely busy during lunch (11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.) and is trying to
decide whether it should increase the number of waitresses from two to three. What
considerations would you look at to determine whether simulation should be used to
make this decision?
Answer : The cost impact the decision should be greater than the cost of doing the
simulation. Sometimes the impact of the decision itself is so insignificant that it doesn’t
warrant the time and effort to conduct a simulation. Suppose, for example, you are trying
to decide whether a worker should repair rejects as they occur or wait until four or five
accumulate before making repairs. If you are certain that the next downstream activity is
relatively insensitive to whether repairs are done sooner rather than later, the decision
becomes inconsequential and simulation is a wasted effort.
 4. A simulation run was made showing that a modeled factory could produce 130 parts per
hour. What information would you want to know about the simulation study before
placing any confidence in the results?
Answer : As the model is run, it is put into operation for the period of interest.
Performance statistics (utilization, processing time, and so on) are gathered and reported
at the end of the run. Usually several replications (independent runs) of the simulation are
made. Averages and variances across the replications are calculated to provide statistical
estimates of model performance. Through an iterative process of modeling, simulation,
and analysis, alternative configurations and operating policies can be tested to determine
which solution works the best.

5. A PC board manufacturer has high work-in-process (WIP) inventories, yet machines and
equipment seem underutilized. How could simulation help solve this problem?
Answer : Simulation can help improve productivity by exposing ways of making better
use of existing assets. By looking at a system holistically, longstanding problems such as
bottlenecks, redundancies, and inefficiencies that previously went unnoticed start to
become more apparent and can be eliminated. “The trick is to find waste, or muda,”
advises Shingo; “after all, the most damaging kind of waste is the waste we don’t
recognize. Consider the following actual examples where simulation helped uncover and
eliminate wasteful practices: A large manufacturing company with stamping plants
located throughout the world produced stamped aluminum and brass parts on order
according to customer specifications. Each plant had from 20 to 50 stamping presses that
were utilized anywhere from 20 to 85 percent. A simulation study was conducted to
experiment with possible ways of increasing capacity utilization.

References
Harrell−Ghosh−Bo wden: Simulation Using ProModel. (n.d.). INTRODUCTION TO SIMULATION.