THE USAGE OF SIMULATION MODELING SYSTEM ARENA FOR THE RESEARCH OF PRODUCTION LINES

The design and operation approval goals were examined and the analysis of such methods of their solution as full-scale experiment, mathematical and simulation modeling was done in the article. The experience of simulation modeling for the production line research was analyzed. The two typ- ical models were developed in the simulation software package Arena, one of which is single- product and the other is multi-product. The verification of developed models was done by the be- havior analysis of the bottleneck and the Little’s formula. The experiments with the single – prod- uct model were made in order to estimate the influence of batches, failures, process variability, production line length on such performance measures as throughput, average flow time, the down- time and blocking probability of workstations.