ISE 403: Project Proposal Evaluation
Formulation of the Problem
_______Tentative Title,
Group Members, Group Leader?
_______Name,
Address, Phone number of subject-matter expert (who knows about system)
_______Name, Address, Phone number of decision-maker (who acts upon the recommendations)
_______How did you find this company and what is your contact with them
_______Background on the
company
General
description of company
Background
on why there is a problem –
low production, bottlenecks, ...?
What
are the "facts"
related to the existing problem? (what
is the present production,
what is the current cycle times, what are the present machine utilizations,
...)
_______Overall objectives
of the simulation study
What
outcomes do you expect from the simulation study?
How
will the achievement of the objectives benefit the company?
What
are the boundaries (scope) of the study?
_______ Specific questions
to be answered by the simulation study
List/describe
each question separately
How
are these questions related to the objectives?
_______Performance
measures that will be used in the simulation to evaluate
the efficacy of different system configurations (changes)
Such
as cycle time, queuing times, utilization, …?
List
and discuss each performance measure separetely
How
does each performance measure relate to the objectives?
_______What changes to the
present system do you expect to study?
List
and discuss each change
Why
might each of these changes improve the present system?
_______Why is simulation
appropriate for analysis of this problem?
Why
doesn't common sense, simple analyses, or
direct
experimentation not "solve" this problem?
General Comments: