MIME 4100 Final Exam 5/1/2011

Email your exam to enikolai@eng.utoledo.edu by Friday, May 6, 2011 by 5 PM. For

each problem, submit a report describing how you developed your model, the
results/observations, and conclusions about the system, and how you validated the model.
In addition, submit the output file from your simulation run. Name you file as follows
“YourName-Problem Number”

This is a take-home exam. Open book, no time limit. Please sign the honor pledge: I
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1. (35 pts) Unprocessed parts arrive at a lathe for machining. The interarrival time is
exponentially distributed with mean value 5 minutes. The parts wait for
processing on a fist-in-first-out basis. The processing time per part is
exponentially distributed with mean processing time 3 minutes. After a part has
been processed it is accepted with probability 0.8 or rejected with probability 0.2.
Rejected parts are placed in the queue of unprocessed parts, after a delay of 30
seconds.
Construct an ARENA model to this process. Perform 1, 10 and 100 replications
to calculate the average number of parts produced and the mean time to produce
an acceptable part. Terminate each replication after 8 hours and ignore those
parts stuck in the system.
2. (35 pts) Modify the simulation of single-drill server model that we studied in class
(posted on: http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/~enikolai/4100-Reviews.htm ) as
follows:
 Add a machine for washing each part after the drill. The processing time is
triangular with minimum and maximum values of 1 and 6 minutes, and most
likely value of 3 minutes.
 Add an inspection station after the washing machine. The time to inspect a part is
5 minutes. Ninety percent of parts pass inspection and are shipped to customers.
The remaining 10% are discarded.
Perform 1, 10 and 100 replications to find the mean number of parts produced in 8
hours, the time of a part in the system, the mean time and the mean number of
parts in each queue.

3. (30 pts) We want to simulate 100 numbers from the probability density function
below. Describe the method and the equations. Then implement the method in an
Excel program. Submit the program and the results with your solution. Explain
how you validated your program.
fX(x)

0 3 5 x

PDF of variable in the third problem