Before building a simulation model the important thing is to prepare objectives to clarify what your simulation model wants to achieve and to guide the customer for implementation overtime.If we construct a model that constitute all particulars of the real world and build everything corresponding with your operation,then the model will become too complex and even it complicate the results.The goals should be for the model and not for the real world.
For example some one wants to know that can we increase throughput with the same resources deployed? How extent that batch size should be decreased that will reduce the amount of time spent in the process and decrease the lead time?There are even other factors you might consider like how to release the production orders and do we need to track the inventory of other material(brought from outside) other than the main product(build inside)? Is there human intervention that makes decisions?
If you want to run different scenarios that might comprise things like cycle time,nr of operators,breakdown time,batch sizes and inter-arrival time.You need to know what variables that you must consider.There are just a lot of factors that need to be considered yet to create a reasonable model that can solve a problem.
About what statistics to choose it is upto the modeler to decide what to choose that depends upon the objectives of the model?Good luck!:-)
看到8楼的回答,想到了flexterm用户手册中的内容。
在FlexTerm Modeling Paradigm中有这么一段话:
A simulation is defined as, "a purposeful and often radical abstraction of a real life system which can be used to answer questions or solve problems. It contains only those elements of reality that are needed to answer the question or solve the problem." FlexTerm supports this ability by allowing you to define just those elements of a container terminal that are necessary to answer your question while everything else is abstracted. This means that the details of the abstracted portion are ignored or hidden from the model so the modeler can focus on the essential portions.
简单的说是,根据客户想要解决什么问题,就往哪个方向建模。