Question: 4-13 Parts arrive at a single machine system according to an exponential interarrival distribution with mean 20 minutes; the first part arrives at time 0.

4-13 Parts arrive at a single machine system according to an exponential interarrival distribution with mean 20 minutes; the first part arrives at time 0. Upon arrival, the parts are processed at a machine. The processing-time distribution is TRIA(11, 16, 18) min- utes. The parts are inspected and for each part there is a 0.24 probability that it will need to be sent back to the same machine to be reprocessed (same processing-time distribu- tion but a fresh draw from it, and all send-back decisions are independent of each other). Theres no limit on how many times a given part might have to go through the machine for processing/reprocessing. Run the simulation for a single replication of length 20,000 minutes to observe the average and maximum number of times a part is processed, the average number of parts in the machine queue, and the average part cycle time (time from a parts entry to the system to its exit after however many passes through the ma- chine system are required). Add an appropriate Resource animation.

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