SIMSCRIPT II.5 Programming Language

SIMSCRIPT II.5 Programming Language
There are many other ways to formulate the job shop model. A more realistic approach can be
found in the book, Building Simulation Models with SIMSCRIPT II.5. In that version, there are any
number of machines clustered in groups. Each group has different machines but within a group,
machines are identical. Instead of having a routing associated with each job that comes into the
shop, there are a number of job prototypes. Each job prototype consists of a sequence of tasks. Each
task comprising the prototype has a specified machine group and mean task completion time. Task
completion times are sampled from exponential distributions using the given mean.
Each job arrives according to a Poisson process, at which time its job prototype is randomly selected
according to a statistical distribution provided as input data. Each job is routed through the sequence
of machine groups needed to do its selected prototype's tasks.
The output report from that simulation is as follows.
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