UNIVERSITY MINOR ASSESSMENT
MAY 2024
SIE3601
Industrial Engineering Simulation I
Welcome to the SIE3601 Assessment 2.
Date: 14 May 2024
Examiner name: Crisantia D Nyaka
Internal moderator name: S Chikumba
External moderator name:
This paper consists of 3 pages.
Total marks: 61
Number of pages:
Instructions:
(insert instructions to students here)
• Complete all questions.
• All calculations must be shown fully.
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1. You have recently opened a coffee shop at mall @ 55 in centurion. Customers
arrive at the coffee shop, queue up to place their orders, wait to receive their
orders, and then leave the shop.
Assumptions:
Customers arrive at the coffee shop following a Poisson distribution with an
average arrival rate of 10 customers per minute.
The time taken to serve a customer follows an exponential distribution with a
mean service rate of 12 customers per minute.
The shop operates on a first-come, first-served basis.
The system is assumed to have infinite queue capacity.
Calculate:
1.1. Average time a customer spends in the system (W)
1.2. Average time a customer spends waiting in the queue (Wq)
1.3. Average number of customers in the system (L)
1.4. Average number of customers in the queue (Lq)
(8)
2. Differentiate between static and dynamic simulation models and give an
example of each model type. (8)
3. Using excel do a Static Monte Carlo simulation of the sum when throwing four
fair dice. You place 2 dice in each hand. (Toss 50 times)
3.1. Calculate the Mean Sum, Min Sum, and Max Sum.
3.2. Illustrate the frequency of rolling 4 dice on a bar graph.
(20)
(Submit excel file)
4. You work in company that sells bottles. These bottles are manufactured in 2
stations namely station 1 and station 2. The bottles are manufactured in stations
based on station availability. After the bottles are manufactured, they go to the
quality control department where they are inspected. If inspection is passed the
bottles will go to warehouse 1 (for station 1) or warehouse 2 (for station 2). When
the bottles fail inspection, they move to a department called adjustment before
they are diverted back to either station 1 or station 2 then they follow the main
sequence again.
Assumptions:
The source produces one type of entity (bottles). The bottles from station 1 pass
inspection 80% of the time while bottles from station 2 pass inspection 70% of
the time.
Simulate this plant on Simio and submit a running model. (25)
TOTAL=61 MARKS
