Question: PLEASE HELP ME SOLVE THSI STEP BY STEP IN ARENA 8 - 7 A prototype of a new airport bag - screening system is currently

PLEASE HELP ME SOLVE THSI STEP BY STEP IN ARENA
8-7 A prototype of a new airport bag-screening system is currently being designed, as
in the following figure. Bags arrive to the system with interarrival times of EXPO(0.25)
(all times are in minutes), and are loaded on a load conveyor (75 feet long) and conveyed
to an initial scan area. At the initial scan area, the bags are dropped into a chute to wait
for the initial scan, which is of duration TRIA(0.1,0.25,0.35). Based on the results of
the scan, accepted bags (81%) are loaded on an out conveyor (40 feet long) and con-
veyed to exit the system, whereas rejected bags are loaded on a secondary conveyor (20
feet long) and conveyed to a secondary scan area. At the secondary scan area, the bags
are dropped into a chute to wait for a visual inspection, which takes TRIA(0.6,1.2,1.4).
After the inspection, they are sent through a secondary scanner that is 10 feet long. This
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scan takes 1.2 minutes and only one bag can be in the scanner at a time. At the end of
the secondary scanner, the bags are examined by another inspector, taking EXPO(0.4).
Based on the results of this secondary inspection, 10% of the bags are sent to a reject
area for further inspection, accepted bags are loaded on a third conveyor (20 feet long)
and conveyed to exit the system. All conveyors are nonaccumulating with a velocity of
40 feet per minute. Each bag requires one foot of space on each of the conveyors. De-
velop a model of this system and run it for 2,000 minutes. Use a resource-constrained
route to model the second scanner.
The current design calls for a chute capacity of 20 at the initial scan area and a
total capacity of 25 at the secondary scan area, not including the bag undergoing the
visual inspection. What percent of the time would you expect this capacity be exceeded?
(Work this exercise with infinite chute capacities, and just watch the percent of time the
chute capacities contemplated above would be exceeded if they were put into effect.)
HINT: Add two time-persistent statistics to collect this information using logical expres-
sions that evaluate to zero if the number of bags is less than the capacity, and to one if
the capacity is exceeded.
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