error in the inventory system. Design/methodology/approach – The simulation experiments vary the amount of inventory system …

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to apply a simulation experiment to investigate the impact of new components …/methodology/approach – The experimental design is implemented using an ARENA simulation model. Simulation results are used to test the proposed …

This paper reports simulation research that empirically investigates and compares supply chain performance under …

/methodology/approach – The authors conducted simulation modelling of the above variables, and supplemented these by means of interviews with …

evaluated using a simulation tool. A range of scenarios are designed based on realistic cases considering the stochastic and … dynamic nature of liner services. A comprehensive set of simulation experiments are conducted and analysed; and the relative …

capacity constrained environment. Given the complexity of such systems, there are divergent goals of process cost optimization … decisional perspective. The twofold purpose of this paper is to design a simulation model for food job-shop processing and to … the catering industry. Design/methodology/approach The authors designed a simulation tool enabling the analysis of food …

collected empirical data represent the initial state of the system and are utilised as the input of ARENA ® simulation. A … simulation scenario is designed by constructing a 3×3 table (= nine combinations) that contains a varying number of surgeons and …). “Runs” are the cycles or how many times the simulation is executed, while “replications” refer to how many times a computer …

design optimization. The problem of reducing simulation time for characterizing a type of DC motor is studied in this paper … simulation process. Design/methodology/approach – A first‐principle model for the motor is used for simulation in MATLAB ® . Each … analysis is conducted. To reduce simulation time, several factors in the simulation process are identified. A two‐level full …

regression, simulation, basic statistics such as average, standard deviation, coefficient of variation % (C.V.%), etc. for the … through empirical analysis based on real‐life case examples. Findings – The stepwise regression and simulation have been found …