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Chapter 1
Introduction to Simulation Modeling
Simulation Modeling
• Paradigm that creates simplified representations of
complex systems
• Simplification
Real System • Abstraction Model
• Assumptions
• A packaging/warehousing process
• Product is filled, sealed and put into boxes
• Boxes are taken to warehouse
• Customers arrive with product demand
• Process failures
• time to failure is distributed as Expo(200) minutes
• repair time is distributed as Norm(90,45) minutes