USE ARENA TO CREATE DEC SIMULATION

Develop a model of a simple serial two-process system. Items arrive at the system with a mean time between arrivals of 10 minutes. They are immediately sent to Process 1, which has an unlimited queue and a single resource with a mean service time of 9 minutes. Upon completion, they are sent to Process 2, which is identical to Process 1. Items depart the system upon completion of Process 2. Performance measures of interest are the average numbers in queue at each process and the system cycle time. Using a replication length of 10,000 minutes, make the following four runs and compare the results:

Run 1: exponential inter-arrival times and exponential service times.

Run 2: constant inter-arrival times and exponential service times.

Run 3: exponential inter-arrival times and constant service times.

Run 4: constant inter-arrival times and constant service times.