Modeling and Simulation

Unit 3 Assignment 3
Problem 1. An oil engine manufacturer purchases lubricants at the rate of Rs. 42 per piece from
a vendor. The requirement of these lubricants is 1800 per year. What should be the order quantity
per order, if the cost per placement of an order is Rs. 16 and inventory carrying charge per rupee
per year is only 20 paise.
(Ans: 83 lubricants)

Problem 2. A manufacturing company purchases 9000 parts of a machine for its annual require-
ments, ordering one month usage at a time. Each part costs Rs. 20. The ordering cost per order
is Rs. 15 and the carrying charges are 15 % of the average inventory per year. Suggest a more
economic purchasing policy for the company. How much would it save the company per year?
Ans: q ∗ = 300 units, t = 30
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year=12 days (approximately), = Rs.900, total annual cost=1305, net
saving= Rs. 405 per year.

Problem 3. A contractor has to supply 10000 bearings per day to an auto-mobile manufacturer.
He finds that, when he starts a production run he can produce 25000 bearings per day. He cost of
holding a bearing in stock for one year is Rs. 2 and the set up cost of a production run is Rs.18000.
How frequently should production run be made.
Ans: q ∗ = 300 bearings, t= 9.49 days (approximately, length of production cycle=4 days (approx.)

Problem 4. A contractor undertakes to supply Diesel engines to a truck manufacturer at the rate
of 25 per day .There is a clause in the contract penalizing him Rs 10 per engine per day late for
missing the scheduled delivery date. He finds that the cost of holding a complete engine in stock
is Rs 16 per month. His production process is such that each month he starts a batch of engines
through the shops and all these engines are available for delivery any time after the end of the
month.What should his inventory level be at the beginning of each month.
(Ans: EOQ=25*30*(10*16/30)/ (10+16/30)=380 engines).

Problem 5. Consider the following data and determine EOQ and Maximum inventory level for unit
cost=Rs. 100, order cost =Rs. 160, Inventory carrying cost=Rs.20 and back order cost= Rs. 10,
Annual demand=1000 units ( ANS:EOQ=219.08.stock level=73).

Problem 6. Obtain the steady state solution of (M|M|1) : (∞|FCFS) system and also find expected
value of queue length n.

Problem 7. Discuss (M|M|1) : (∞|FCFS) queuing model and find the expected line length E(Ls )
in the system.

Problem 8. A TV repairman finds that the time spent on his jobs has an exponential distribution
with mean 30 minutes. If he repairs sets in the order in which they come in, and if they arrival
of sets is approximately Poisson with an average rate of 10per 8-hour day, what is repairmen’s
expected idle time each day? How many jobs are ahead of the average set just brought in?

Problem 9. A TV repairman finds that the time spent on his jobs has an exponential distribution
with mean 30 minutes. If he repairs sets in the order in which they come in, and if they arrival
of sets is approximately Poisson with an average rate of 10per 8-hour day, what is repairmen’s
expected idle time each day? How many jobs are ahead of the average set just brought in?

Problem 10. A shipping company has a single unloading berth with ships arriving in Poisson
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fashion at an average rate of three per day. The unloading time distribution for a ship with the
unloading crews is found to be exponential with average unloading time 12 in days. The company
has a large labour supply without regular working hours and to avoid long waiting lines the com-
pany has a large labour supply without regular working hours and to avoid long waiting lines the
company has a policy of using as many uploading crews as there are ships waiting in line or being
uploaded. Under these condition, find

(a) The average number of unloading crews working at any time, and

(b) The probability that more than four crews will be needed.

Problem 11. If a period of 2 hours in a day (8–10 A.M.) trains arrive at the yard every 20 minutes
but the service time continue to remain 36 minutes, then calculate for this period:

(a) The probability that the yard is empty, and

(b) Average queue length, on the assumption that the line capacity of the yard is limited to 4 trains
only.

Problem 12. A car park contains 5 cars. The arrival of cars is Poisson at a mean rate of 10 per
hour. The length of time each car spends in the car park has negative exponential distribution with
mean of 5 hours. How many cars are in the car park on average and what is the probability of a
newly arriving customer finding the car park full and having to park his car elsewhere?

Problem 13. A car park contains 5 cars. The arrival of cars is Poisson at a mean rate of 10 per
hour. The length of time each car spends in the car park has negative exponential distribution with
mean of 5 hours. How many cars are in the car park on average and what is the probability of a
newly arriving customer finding the car park full and having to park his car elsewhere?

Problem 14. A stenographer has 5 person for whom she performs stenographic work. Arrival rate
is Poisson and service times are exponential. Average arrival rate is 4 per hour with an average
service time of 10 minutes. Cost of waiting is Rs. 8 per hour while the cost of servicing Rs. 2.50
each. Calculate:

(a) The average waiting time of an arrival,

(b) The average length of the waiting line,

(c) The average time which an arrival spends in the systems, and

(d) The minimum cost service rate.

Ans: (a) 12.4 min., (b) 0.79=one stenographer, (c) 22.4 min.

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