Question: Consider a local post - disaster relief center where the volunteers accept and organize different in - kind donations. After a disaster, they accept three

Consider a local post-disaster relief center where the volunteers accept and organize different in-kind
donations. After a disaster, they accept three kinds of donations to be sent to the disaster area. The donors
can bring boxes that contain canned food, perishable food, or clothes. The interarrival times for canned
food donations are distributed with EXPO(15) minutes, and the perishable food boxes have an interarrival
time with distribution EXPO(25) minutes. Since clothes are easier to collect and store, boxes of cloth
donations are more frequent with an interarrival time distribution of EXPO(10) minutes.
There are two processes at this center: accepting and sorting donations. Currently, there is one volunteer
working on accepting the donations and three more volunteers working on sorting the accepted donation
boxes. Accepting a donation lasts for UNIF(3,10) minutes, and the accepting volunteer can work with one
donor at a time. The sorting time for boxes depends on the type of box. Canned food donations take
TRIA(5,12,15) minutes to sort, and perishable food donations take UNIF(8,10) minutes to sort. For cloth
donations, if the box contains only the same-size items, it takes TRIA(2,5,8) minutes, and if there are
different sizes in the box, it takes TRIA(8,10,15) minutes. 40% of the cloth donations contain only samesized
items.
The donations are processed according to a first-come-first-out (FIFO) discipline in both the acceptance
queue and sorting queue normally. However, when a perishable food donation arrives, it is prioritized in
both acceptance and sorting to ensure food safety. Volunteers start working on the perishable food donation
immediately if they are idle and after finishing the current activity if they are already working on a box (both
in the accepting and sorting processes).
The management of this relief center wants to improve the operations and hired you to model the system
to conduct a simulation study and make some suggestions. Assume that the system is empty and all
resources are idle at time 0. Assume that the first arrival for each donation occurs at time 0, and donations
arrive one by one.
I. Model the system on ARENA and run the simulation for 10 hours (daily working time). SHOW IT ON PAPER , DRAW FLOW CHART MODEL WITH INFO plz

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