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8.4 Building a basic model

As an introduction to using ARENA we will build the simplest of possible models - a single server queue.

In a simple manufacturing cell jobs arrive for processing every 10 minutes. The time taken to process the jobs on the lathe varies uniformly between 8 and 12 minutes. Model the system to determine the number of jobs processed in an 8 hour shift.


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