Question: QUESTION 1: Draw the flowchart and construct the ARENA simulation model for the following system: The finishing area of HappyKids Company are responsible for the

QUESTION 1: Draw the flowchart and construct the

QUESTION 1: Draw the flowchart and construct the ARENA simulation model for the following system: The finishing area of HappyKids Company are responsible for the inspecting, sorting, assembling, packaging, and loading of the products. The Happy Kids semi-finished products arrive at the finishing area in batches of 5 units in a box, and with interarrival times obeying an Exponential distribution that has mean 3 minutes. Upon arrival, a QualityPerson inspects the semi-finished products for problems. At this stage, 10% of the products are found defective, and sent to scrap. The products that pass the inspection are then sorted. This operation takes Normal (4,1) minutes and requires one Sorting Person one unit of capacity of the Sorting Machines. The company employs 4 SortingPersons in the first shift (between 8:00 and 16:00), and 5 Sorting Persons in the second shift (between 16:00 and 24:00). There are 5 Sorting Machines. After sorting, the AssemblyPersons do the assembly of the products. There are 10 AssemblyPersons in the first shift and 15 in the second shift. During the assembly operation, an AssemblyFixture is also used. The company has 8 AssemblyFixtures. The assembly takes Triangular (3,6,10) minutes. After the assembly, the packaging is also done by the AssemblyPersons, however, in another workstation. The AssemblyPerson takes the product to the packaging station in Uniform (30 seconds, 1.5 minutes), then performs the packaging using the Packing Machine, in Normal (7,2) minutes. There are 6 Packing Machines available. After packaging, the product is left for Uniform (3,5) minutes for the adhesives to dry. Finally, the loading operation is performed by the Loaders. 2 Loaders are required for loading a product, and there are 9 Loaders in both the first shift and second shift. The loading has to be done with utmost care, therefore a product is loaded only if there are 3 or more Loaders available (idle). If 3 or more Loaders are available, the product is loaded (using 2 Loaders) in Exponential (4) minutes. If 3 or more Loaders are not available, the product is put aside to the pre-loading area for 2 minutes. After 2 minutes, the check (for whether there are 3 or more Loaders are available) is repeated. After loading, the products leave the finishing area. The Sorting Machines need to be calibrated after processing each 100 products. The calibration takes Exponential (5) minutes. After the calibration, the Sorting Machines are ready to run for another 100 products. The Packing Machines are subject to failures. On the average, these machines run for Normal (3 hours, 30 minutes) before a failure occurs. The time to fix the failure is estimated to be Triangular (6,12,16) minutes. The managers of HappyKids are also curious about the number of defective products that are sent to scrap, and also how much time it takes from the end of inspection to the end of loading. In your model, include the necessary tools (blocks and/or data elements) to collect these data

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