Application of GPSS Five to Discrete System Simulation
Application of GPSS Five to Discrete System Simulation
A GPSS model of a unit load AS/R system and shipping department
WSC '83 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
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This paper discusses a GPSS V simulation model of a filter rod manufacturing process at the Macon, Georgia Branch of the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation. This automated filter rod process produces and stores filter rods for use as needed by the cigarette fabrication process. We discuss the purpose and structure of the model as well as its validation and uses. With this model, the characteristics of individual machine components, the capacity of in-process inventory buffers, and the demand for filter rods can be specified as inputs and overall system performance predicted. Under certain conditions of machine breakdown and/or depletion of the inventory buffer, operators must manually supply rods to the cigarette fabrication process. One purpose of the model is to predict which combinations of machine components and which size of inventory buffer maintain a high utilization of the filter rod making machine while keeping operator interventions to an acceptable level.