Arena Systems Simulation problem

Adele Poole has just taken an engineeri class where they designed a product named Bargain Footstool and the associated manufacturing process. The footstools will be produced as an furniture kit. Adele has decided that all the effort should be put to work to support her education-so she plans to actually make the footstool kits in her father's shop. She has been assured by her friend, Jaclyn, that there is a market for the footstools and that she can sell all that Adele can produce. Adele does not want to hire any employees or buy any additional equipment unil she sees if this is going to be a money maker or not. Adele does have data about the steps of manufacture and the time that each step takes as follows 1) Receive leg stock each moming between 7:00 am and 8:00 am and cut into legs. Each piece of leg stock, which comes in batches of 6, can be cut into four legs and takes a uniformly distributed 4 to S minutes to cut all four legs from each piece of leg stock. Some light sanding is done as a part of this process but is included in the above process time. This process requires her father's only chop saw and, naturally, Adele will run it Since some of the wood has knots, 4% of the legs will be discarded as waste. 2 Receive seat stock each morning between 7:00 am and 8:00 am and cut into seats. Each piece of seat stock, which comes in batches of 2, yields five seats and takes 15 to 20 minutes of time per piece of seat stock, uniformly distributed. Some light sanding is done as a part of this process but is included in the above process time. Again, this requires Adele and the same chop saw. Loss is negligible in this process. to be 3) Receive hardware each morning between 7:00 am and 8:00 am in batches of 5. No additional work is needed. 4) Adele's father wants her to keep the WIP (Work in Process) inventory as low as possible so he can walk through the shop without tripping over anything. So don't order too much. 5) Collect all the wood pieces and the hardware (one seat, one pack of hardware, and a set of four legs). Package the stool pieces into a kit for shipment. This requires a normally distributed mean of 7.5 minutes with a standard deviation of 0.5 minutes. Again, the work is being done by Adele. Adele Poole has just taken an engineeri class where they designed a product named Bargain Footstool and the associated manufacturing process. The footstools will be produced as an furniture kit. Adele has decided that all the effort should be put to work to support her education-so she plans to actually make the footstool kits in her father's shop. She has been assured by her friend, Jaclyn, that there is a market for the footstools and that she can sell all that Adele can produce. Adele does not want to hire any employees or buy any additional equipment unil she sees if this is going to be a money maker or not. Adele does have data about the steps of manufacture and the time that each step takes as follows 1) Receive leg stock each moming between 7:00 am and 8:00 am and cut into legs. Each piece of leg stock, which comes in batches of 6, can be cut into four legs and takes a uniformly distributed 4 to S minutes to cut all four legs from each piece of leg stock. Some light sanding is done as a part of this process but is included in the above process time. This process requires her father's only chop saw and, naturally, Adele will run it Since some of the wood has knots, 4% of the legs will be discarded as waste. 2 Receive seat stock each morning between 7:00 am and 8:00 am and cut into seats. Each piece of seat stock, which comes in batches of 2, yields five seats and takes 15 to 20 minutes of time per piece of seat stock, uniformly distributed. Some light sanding is done as a part of this process but is included in the above process time. Again, this requires Adele and the same chop saw. Loss is negligible in this process. to be 3) Receive hardware each morning between 7:00 am and 8:00 am in batches of 5. No additional work is needed. 4) Adele's father wants her to keep the WIP (Work in Process) inventory as low as possible so he can walk through the shop without tripping over anything. So don't order too much. 5) Collect all the wood pieces and the hardware (one seat, one pack of hardware, and a set of four legs). Package the stool pieces into a kit for shipment. This requires a normally distributed mean of 7.5 minutes with a standard deviation of 0.5 minutes. Again, the work is being done by Adele