Job Shop Simulation

This thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.A manufacturing shop making different parts requires processing of these parts on various machines (or work centers) for various lengths of time in certain predetermined sequence for each type of these parts. This paper describes and builds a computerized model to simulate such a shop and thereby predicts the areas of trouble in the shop, percentage machine utilization, expected completion times for different orders and detailed status of the shop at any time and thus helps management in making vital decisions