Code No: 53213/MT

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M.Tech. – II Semester Regular Examinations, September, 2008

SIMULATION MODELLING OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

(Common to Advanced Manufacturing Systems/
Industrial Engineering & Management)

Time: 3hours Max. Marks:60

Answer any FIVE questions

All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) Explain various steps involved in developing simulation model,

considering that you are developing it for a typical single serve
queuing system.
b) “ Simulation is not optimization technique rather it is evaluation
technique”. Do you accept or don’t accept? Give reasons for that.

2.a) Explain various essential properties which an estimator should

posses.
b) Explain terms
i) Level of significance
ii) Power of test.
c) Let p the probability that a coil will fall head in a single toss in
order to test H0 : p = ½ against H1 : p = ¾ . The coin is tossed 5
times and H0 is rejected if more than 3 heads are obtained. Find
the probability of type I error and power of test.

3.a) Explain terms

i) Verification
ii) Validation and
iii) Credibility.
b) Explain confidence interval approach for verification of simulation
model with real world observations. Also explain in clear terms the
meaning of statically significant and practically significant.

4.a) Explain three different approaches for modelling random

components of system. Write advantages and disadvantages of
each approach.
b) Write characteristics of
i) Poisson
ii) Binomial
iii) Exponential and
iv) Weibull distributions.

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5.a) Explain
i) Inverse transform method and
ii) Acceptance – Rejection Method.
b) Write algorithms to generate random varieties from the following
distributions
i) Weibull ii) Normal and iii) Binomial.

6.a) Compare GPSS and SIMAN languages.

b) Develop SIMAN model for estimating the average number of
customers in the single server queuing system.

7.a) Explain two types of simulation with respect to output data

analysis.
b) Explain the replication method for output data analysis to estimate
performance measures to 95% confidence interval limits.

8. Consider the following Job shop problem

Number of Jobs = 3
Number of Machines = A B C D processing times (mints) as follows

M/Job A B C D
1 11 6 4 19
2 10 3 6 7
3 8 7 12 16

Job Processing order

1 A B C D
2 B C D A
3 A C B D

Scheduling policy when jobs compete for any machine is shortest

processing Time (SPT) rule. Simulate and determine total time
required to complete all jobs according to SPT rule.

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