project on Arena simulation software

St. Mary’s University Computer Simulation EG 6331

St. Mary’s University Computer Simulation EG 6331

Objective

To present a simulation model that represents a system, with the intention of predicting its performance. Remember that simulation modeling is used to understand whether, under what circumstances, and in which ways a segment of your system could fail or has the potential for improvement.

The main objectives are:

a) Identify a system and all its parts.

b) Understand the system’s potential problems or areas of improvement.

c) Proceed with the analysis and development of activity diagrams.

d) Create the model.

After you selected a system, (e.g. drive-thru pharmacy, bank operations, etc.) you should apply the following modeling methodology (DEGREE):

· Define the problem

· Establish measures of performance for evaluation.

· Generate alternative solutions

· Rank alternative solutions

· Evaluate and iterate as necessary

· Execute and evaluate the solution

Note: It is important to document your assumptions so that you can examine their effect on the model during the verification, validation, and experimental analysis steps of the methodology.

Guidelines for Final Reports

· The final report must be typed, using standard 11-point, serif typeface (e.g. Times), and singlespaced, with one-inch margins (on all sides).

· The final report should be saved in Word (.docx) or Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) format.

· The final report should be a minimum of 12 pages and a maximum of 16 pages, not including references and appendices.

· The title page shows the title of the paper, student name, school name, and date of submission.

· All pages except the title page must be numbered. Type the numbers within the one-inch margin on the bottom of the page. These numerals should be centered.

· Abbreviations should be defined the first time they appear in text by placing the abbreviation in parentheses following the spelled-out word. Suggested Activities and Report sequence

1. Define research problem.

2. Conduct literature review.

3. Form tentative title.

4. Begin introduction and begin references.

5. Conduct research and write materials and methods.

6. Prepare tables/figures.

7. Write results.

8. Write Discussion and conclusions.

9. Finish introduction and finish references.

10. Include appendices (optional).

This report should disclose the modeling process employed. It is important to include the following points:

a) Document the process being modeled.

b) Disclose the plan for collecting the data.

c) Graphical and statistical analysis of the data.

d) Hypothesis of the distributions.

Arena model

· The model should be a close representation of the selected real-life system.

· The model should address all the processes described in your report.

· The model should have animations that help in the understanding a emulation of the real-life system.

· The model should run and provide results that were discussed in your written report.

Note: The Café consists of 2 parts. Part one is where customers would go and order coffee or food, and there are two queues for that section with two people working in that section. The second section in the café is a bar, with one bartender, who serves more than a customer at a time.

· The name of the café is Halcyon located in san Antonio tx. (in case you needed more info about it, you can look it up)

· For the time study, and the probability distributions you are going to use, just go ahead and use whatever that is suitable for such a café. (meaning, that you should provide me with a list of data points and use the input analyzer and find the suitable distribution, so just know that I need the data you are going to use)

· There are attributes and variables that I want you to use no matter what, you can add more if you want, but make sure to use the variables and the attributes I’m using in the arena example that I’m providing.

· The examples of the arena models that I’m provided are worthless to you, don’t mimic them or anything, just look at the variables and the attributes that are used in the examples so that you would have an idea.

· Please consider adding entities pictures.

· Also, consider adding a picture for the resources, and let the picture of the resources differ based on the status of them (busy, idle ..)

· Consider adding a readwrite module to record results.

· Consider attributes for both entities and orders.

· You can make couple of models for example (a model for weekdays, and another one for weekends)

· I need you to provide ways to improve the performance of the café using what-if analysis, and you can provide a new model for the what-if analysis you did.

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