Prelimiary Analysis of the System

What are the overall purpose and characteristics of the system? Purpose: to identify and test innovative methods in order to advance the use of simulation for supporting decision making at the strategic and the operational level of the cargo screening process. The characteristic: this system will take place at the port which is involving two ports that is port in Klang, Malaysia and port in Belawan, Indonesia. The system focus more on detecting illegal immigrants.

 What are the physical features of the system? -Involves two main port that is Klang and Belawan
-Every lorry cargo need to pass screening process before they proceed to the agent boarder -There are crew that will do the examination at each screening process in order to detect any illegal immigrants -Needed screening machine What specific performance features of this system are you interested in knowing more about? - the screening procedure at the port

 What elements of the system do you think are important to include in your model in order to address the issues you has raised?

A simulation model and a resource optimiser The simulation model will allow carrying out what if analyses for the system under examination. The results of the simulation will be fed into the resource optimiser to create a new set of input parameter values for the simulation.

 What elements of the system performance do you need to consider that illuminate the issues you has raised?
Screening the cargo will take some time and sometimes it can delay the process if there is some problem at the certain part. Thus, the process will be delay and can cause some loss to certain parties. What are the roles of a schematic and process flow diagram (should be built yourself) in your model? -Act as a guideline to the management side at the port to carry out the process. -The output of the simulator will consist of required technology and manpower and an estimation of the system detection rate

 How accurate would a schematic have to be sufficient for answering the questions that management is asking? -High, this is because this model will represent the actual process. What would you need to include in a process flow diagrams to completely characterize all possible entity pathways through the system? -All the resources, entity and the process What are the primary resources of the system and the tasks or operation they perform? The primary resources : Boarder Agency Force at Belawan Port The tasks and operation: to make sure all the entity which is the lorry are undergoing the screening process in order to eliminate any illegal immigrants during the screening process at the port.

 What kind of data do you think you will need to gather to model the system?

-The data that we need to collect is how many entities that

will be involved and the time taken for the process to be complete What are the assumptions have you made at each stage of modeling? -during the screening process, there will be an inspection towards the entity by the resources -If the lorry is in the suspicious condition, it will go to the deep screening process. In this stage, the entire suspicious thing will be identified and will be removed -At the end of this process, there is no more illegal immigrants.