- Analyze the applications service system by running the simulation repeatedly while adjusting the number of workers (i.e., the capacity buffer) to determine how best to allocate workers to each process. Use only whole numbers of servers (1, 2, 3, etc.). Show your key results in tabular form or as a display. Remember that you must run the simulation for multiple iterations so that the effect of random variations does not bias your results (indicate the number of times you ran the simulation for each analysis). Be prepared to have a team member present this result orally at the next classroom session.
At first, in this section, we should set up criteria about how can we determine the best allocation of workers in each process. For the company, what’s the ideal situation? It must be finishing all requests without delay and paying salary as little as possible. That means we can adjust the number of workers in each process by following this two conditions.
Let’s define some terms in this essay:
Undone rate: “undone rate = ((total demand – total done) / total demand)100%”. This term can be used to evaluate the degree of completion of work. The lower the data of this term, the higher the job completion.
Total salary: “total salary = salary1 number1+ salary2*number2+…….”.
Secondly, we start to make the adjustment to the respective process, which is compared to the original case. The adjustment of number of workers is shown in Table 1 below.
Table 1. Adjustments of Capacity Buffers
Scenarios Prioritizing Scoping:
Scientist Scoping:
Technician Experimenting Analyzing
w/o
Rental Analyzing
w/ Rental Reporting
Original 2 1 3 4 2 6 3
Scenario1 3 2 4 5 3 7 4
Scenario2 4 3 5 6 4 8 5
Scenario3 4 4 6 7 5 9 6
Scenario4 3 3 5 6 4 8 5
Thirdly, in each scenario, the modified simulation model was run 40 times. The key results in terms of the Average Undone Rate (which is the average of 40 times’ undone rates) and Total salary are shown below in Table 2 and from Figure 4.1 to Figure 4.5
Table 2. Average Undone Rate and Total salary
Scenarios Average Undone Rate Total salary
Original 13.72% 4550
Scenario1 2.10% 6100
Scenario2 0.81% 7650
Scenario3 0.84% 9075
Scenario4 0.63% 7525
Figure 4.1. Original
Figure 4.2. Scenario 1
Figure 4.3. Scenario 2
Figure 4.4. Scenario 3
Figure 4.5. Scenario 4
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