Simulation of Industrial Systems

Project Description

Purpose of Project: To provide you with the experience of performing a substantial simulation study. With Rockwell Arena software, you will model a real world system. You should demonstrate the use of as many modeling techniques as possible. You will have to do the following: find a problem or a topic; define the boundaries of the system to be studied; create one or more simulation model(s) of that system; verify your model(s); validate your model(s); design and carry out experiment(s) using the model(s); analyze the results of the experiment(s); and finally, draw conclusions and make recommendation(s) for improvement of the target system.

Result of Project: You will present the project work in the class and will be evaluated by your classmates. The best groups will receive 20% bonus points in the projects. PowerPoint presentation should include: title, outline, project description, project details, model flowchart and animation. A rubric to oral presentation evaluation will be disseminated to help with the presentation.

At the end of semester, you need to submit the project report, the PowerPoint presentation file and the Arena models via Blackboard. Before you submit your files via Blackboard, you need to compress all your files into a .zip file and submit the .zip file. Please remove unnecessary files such as history model files or trail files in your submission before you compress the whole folder. The final project report format should refer to the project grading criteria as below for detailed requirements.