An off ce of a state license bureau has two types of arrivals. Individuals interested in purchasing
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An off ce of a state license bureau has two types of arrivals. Individuals interested in purchasing new plates are characterized to have interarrival times distributed as EXPO(6.8) and service times as TRIA(8.8, 13.7, 15.2); all times are in minutes. Individuals who want to renew or apply for a new driver’s license have interarrival times distributed as EXPO(8.7) and service times as TRIA(16.7, 20.5, 29.2). The off ce has two lines, one for each customer type. The off ce has f ve clerks: two devoted to plates (Mary and Kathy), two devoted to licenses (Sue and Jean), and the team leader (Neil) who can kel01315_ch05_207-278.indd 275 05/12/13 3:28 PM 276 Chapter 5 serve both customer types. Neil will serve the customer who has been waiting the longest. Assume that all clerks are available all the time for the 8-hour day. Note that when entities from the front of multiple FIFO queues (corresponding to multiple Process modules) try to seize the same Resource, the logic to select which entity “wins” is as though all the queues were merged together into a single FIFO queue. Observe the system or cycle time for both customer types over an 8-hour day. Note that, since Neil is multi-talented, you’d want to assign someone else to the next customer if you have a choice of which employee to assign. For the output statistics requested, put a text box inside your Arena f le.
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Simulation With Arena
ISBN: 9780073401317
6th Edition
Authors: W. David Kelton, Randall Sadowski, Nancy Zupick