Question: Please answer only question 1(b) for this post. Suppose a third-party logistics company needs to perform customisation for three different products. All products first go

Please answer only question 1(b) for this post.

Please answer only question 1(b) for this post.

Suppose a third-party logistics company needs to perform customisation for three different products. All products first go to a temporary location, then to customisation machines, and finally to an inspection machine. There are three different processors to process each product. After customisation, all products must go to an inspection station for checking. Products arrive at the plant exponentially with a mean of 5 seconds. The processing time of the customisation machine is exponentially distributed with a mean of 10 seconds. Inspection time is a fixed value of 4 seconds. Simulation time is 50,000 s and queue capacity is 10,000 . (a) Use FlexSim to model this process. Examine the results of the output. Include any assumptions you had to make and any limitations of the model you have created. [You should show how you set up the model in FlexSim, including screenshots of important Object settings. It is important that you make sense of the output results.] (25 marks) (b) Identify the system bottleneck. How would you improve this system? Simulate the improvement using FlexSim. [Hint: identify the bottleneck by output analysis and propose improvement solution by showing the idle percentage of the identified Object.] (15 marks)

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