FAKULTAS MATEMATIKA DAN ILMU PENGETAHUAN ALAM INSTITUT PERTANIAN BOGOR 2014
A maintenance facility of a large manufacturer performs two operations. These operations
must be performed in series; operation 2 always follows operation 1. The units that are maintained are bulky, and space is available for only eight units including the units being worked on. A proposed design leaves space for two units between the works stations, and space for four units before work station 1. Currently company policy is to subcontract the maintenance of a unit if it can not gain access to the in-house facility. Historical data indicates that the time interval between requests for maintenance is exponentially distributed with a mean of 0.4 time units. Service times are also exponentially distributed with the first station requiring on the average 0.25 time units, and the second station 0.5 time units. Units are transported automatically from work station 1 to work station 2 in a negligible amount of time. If the queue of work station 2 is full, that is, if there are two units waiting for work station 2, the first station is blocked and a unit can not leave the station. A blocked work station can not serve other unit. To evaluate the proposed design, statistics on the following variables are to be obtained over a period of 300 time units: i) work station utilization, ii) time to process a unit through the two work stations, iii) time between the subcontracting unit, iv) number of units waiting for each work station, v) fraction of time that work station 1 is blocked. 1. NETWORK