WSC '88 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Winter simulation
The role of animation in decision-making
WSC '88 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Winter simulation
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The production of the familiar local newspaper can become a complicated and challenging scheduling and distribution problem. Expanded circulation, zoned advertising and customized local news have forced newspapers to produce many variations of the traditional single product daily newspaper. Currently, a "main jacket" (a basic regional newspaper without specialized advertising) is only a building block for more complex products. Any time additional sections are "inserted" into the main, the paper becomes classified under a new product code. Operations are now dealing with simultaneous processing of dozens of products in a high-speed, demand-driven environment.Simulation and animation are being used to aid in the operational design and testing of new, flexible newspaper production and distribution facilities. This paper discusses the analysis of the scheduling problems of a specific newspaper while highlighting the benefits of using specialized modeling and display techniques during analysis. The paper contains the following sections: adding dual screen run-time output, creating reusable models by structuring for generic system qualities, and developing model specific user menu systems.