Operations Management
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Assignment
9: Simulation
Date: Tuseday, November 30, 00
Due: Thursday, December 7, 00
1. Text, Problems 26(a) (text, page 640).
2. Text, Problem 30(a) (text, page
642).
3. A measurement instrument depends
on an important component to perform successfully. The component has a
random lifetime described by the exponential distribution with the expected
value of 3 months. To extend the time until failure of the instrument,
it is designed in such a way that many identical components are arranged
in parallel so that it is sufficient that only one of them works properly
for the device to function.
Use simulation to find how many of these critical components have to
be used in parallel to extend the average lifetime of the instrument to
1 year.
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