Some Simulation Examples

Problems to Model

See the Simulation HWs page

Hospital Planning

The Nebraska Medical Center opted to re-examine its surgical facilities, i.e., University Tower and Hixson-Lied Building. It also wanted to plan for its new facilities, e.g., the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Eye Center, and Ambulatory Center.

According to Simio, the Nebraska Medical Center had wanted “to determine the optimal future location(s) for specific patient populations based on prioritized operational goals.”

The Center opted to implement a discrete event simulation model to study its proposals and to see how it could achieve the aforementioned objectives.

Using the model, the Center simulated its current system in a virtual environment and used the insights to identify and remove bottlenecks, reduce patient and surgeon travel distance, ensure the use of operating rooms during staff peak hours, and reduce patient turnover.

Vehicle Assembly Line Operation

https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/94038-simulation-software-helps-nissan-design-manage-assembly-lines

Simulation Applications in Simulation Scholarship. Some Examples:

M. Yokouchi, S. Okui, R. Gaku, Y. Murata, N. Mizuno. COMPARISON BETWEEN SEQUENTIAL EVACUATION AND SIMULTANEOUS EVACUATION IN A HOSPITAL STAIRCASE. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (December 2019). Available at https://www.informs-sim.org/wsc19papers/054.pdf

Yu Jin, Cesar Ruiz, Haitao Liao, Harry Pierson. A SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE REBALANCING AND MAINTENANCE OF BICYCLE-SHARING SYSTEMS. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (December 2019). Available at https://www.informs-sim.org/wsc19papers/091.pdf

Simulation Solutions Using SIMSCRIPT

For simulation examples in the areas of military operations, computer architecture and network analysis, health care, logistics, telecommunication, and transportation. See http://www.simscript.com/solutions/solutions.html

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