Preamble:
Nico Case is an industrial engineer working in Vancouver, BC.Ms. Case is responsible for the design and development of a newwarehousing operation for a national manufacturer of yoga clothing.Nico has several design alternatives available, each with differingtypes of equipment, production strategy, cost, and potentialthroughput. Accordingly, Ms. Case has decided to build a simulationmodel to guide her analysis. The following questions relate to thisstudy. Â
Q 1a18. Ms. Case is interested in setting the warm up period forher model. She has run a pilot run of her simulation and outputhourly throughput for her system. She receives the followingdata:
Time | Rep 1 | Rep 2 | Rep 3 |
1 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
2 | 49 | 40 | 37 |
3 | 20 | 19 | 19 |
4 | 22 | 24 | 24 |
5 | 24 | 20 | 20 |
6 | 22 | 25 | 25 |
     7                  |     25       |     20       |    22      |
     8                  |     25      |     21      |    24       |
     9                   |     21     |     20       |    24       |
     10                  |     21     |     24       |    25        |
a) Define what is meant by \"transient\" as opposed to“steady-state\" for a simulation model.
b) Why is it important to identify a warm up period for asimulation model?
c) Using Welch's technique and a moving window with w = 1,estimate the warm up period for this model.
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