Component Details - Arrival Rate Reader

Instructions to Install Bottleneck Detention Component

1. Create a Directory in C: root called "\projeto-bottleneck" (c:\projeto-bottleneck)

2. Copy all files in this directory

3. Install the component ELF.ZIP to your Simul8 Model (File|Components|Install Components)

4. Create or open your model and place the component in the model

5. Run the model

6. The output data will be written in file VBARQ.TXT. This must be cleared
(empty all text) for each analysis.

7. Analyse the bottlenecks using the ANALYSIS-SHIFTING-BOTLLENECK spreadsheet*,**.

Eliseu Pereira Lima
Leonardo Chwif

* Details on the methodology for inactive and active period and shifting bottleneck can be found in the articles provided within this installation.
** Details on the metodology ELF can be acessed in the 2008 Article entitled "METODOLOGY FOR SELECTING THE BEST SUITABLE BOTTLENECK DETECTION METHOD" (Eliseu Pereira Lima, Leonardo Chwif and Marcos Ribeiro Pereira Barretto) at http://www.informs-cs.org/wscpapers.html