For the original configuration of the manufacturing system of Sec. 2.7, run the model for...

For the original configuration of the manufacturing system of Sec. 2.7, run the model for 100 eight-hour days, but use only the data from the last 90 days to estimate the quantities of interest. In effect, the state of the system at time 10 days represents the initial conditions for the simulation. The idea of “warming up” the model before beginning data collection is a common simulation practice, discussed in Sec. 9.5.1. (You may want to look at the code for simlib routine timest in Fig. 2.57, paying special attention to the variable treset, to understand how the continuous-time statistics will be computed.)

FIGURE 2.57 simlib function timest.