Simulation of continuous mail processing

  • Authors:

  • Hamdy A. Taha;R. R. Goforth;J. E. Bass

  • Affiliations:

  • Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas;Computer Science Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas;Computer Science Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

  • Venue:
  • WSC '87 Proceedings of the 19th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

Simulation may be used to determine the number of sorting devices needed in an automated postal system facility. The model must deal with mail types with great variability in processing characteristics. Interactions, at the sorting stations, between continuously and sequentially processed batches of mail of these different types, introduces a bias in conventionally collected statistics. Although the logic of the basic simulation is straightforward, the model must be significantly modified to produce unbiased or undistorted statistics. SIMNET and SLAM II are used for independently developed final models.