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Some Advantages of Simulation

Advantages of simulation

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Some advantages of Simulation:

1. New policies, operating procedures, decision rules, information flows,


organizational procedures, and so on can be explored without disrupting the
ongoing operations of the real system.

2. New hardware designs, physical layouts, transportation systems, and so on can


be tested without committing resources for their acquisition.

3. Hypotheses about how or why certain phenomena occur can be tested for
feasibility.

4.· Time can be compressed or expanded to allow for a speed-up or slow-down of


the phenomena under investigation.

5. Insight can be obtained about the interaction of variables.

6. Insight can be obtained about the importance of variables to the performance of


the system.

7. Bottleneck analysis can be performed to discover where work in process,


information, materials, and so on are being delayed excessively.

8. A simulation study can help in understanding how the system operates rather
than how individuals think the system operates.

9. "What if” questions can be answered. This is particularly useful in the design of
new systems.

Disadvantages of Simulation

1. Model building requires special training. It is an art that is learned over time and
through experience. Furthermore, if two models are constructed by different
competent individuals, they might have similarities, but it is highly unlikely that they
will be the same.

2. Simulation results can be difficult to interpret Most simulation outputs are


essentially random variables (they are usually based on random inputs), so it can be
hard to distinguish whether an observation is a result of system interrelationships or
randomness.

3. Simulation modeling and analysis can be time-consuming and expensive. Skimping


on resources for modeling and analysis could result in a simulation model or analysis
that is not sufficient for the task.

4. Simulation is used in some cases when an analytical solution is possible, or even


preferable, as was discussed earlier. This might be particularly true in the simulation
of some waiting lines where closed-form queueing models are available.
Counteracting the disadvantages of simulation: In defense of simulation, these four
disadvantages, respectively, can be offset as follows:

1. Vendors of simulation software have been actively developing packages that


contain models that need only input data for their operation. Such models have the
generic tag "simulator" or "template."

2. Many simulation software vendors have developed output-analysis capabilities


within their packages for performing very thorough analyses.

3. Simulation can be performed faster today than yesterday and will be even faster
tomorrow, because of advances in hardware that permit rapid execution of scenarios
and because of advances in many simulation packages. For example, some simulation
software contains constructs for modeling material handling that uses such transporter
as fork-lift trucks, conveyors, and automated guided vehicles.

4. Closed-form models are not able to analyze most of the complex systems that are
encountered in practice. In many years of consulting practice by two of the authors,
not one problem was encountered that could have been solved by a closed-form
solution.

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