- Develop A Model And Animation Of A Ferris Wheel Ride At A Small Tachy County Fair Agitated Customers Mostly Small Ov 1 (173.37 KiB) Viewed 56 times
Develop a model and animation of a Ferris-wheel ride at a small, tachy county fair. Agitated customers (mostly small, over-sugared kids who do not know any better) arrive at the ride with interarrival times distributed as EXPO(2) minutes and enter the main queue. When the previous ride has finished and the first customer is ready to get off, the next five customers (or fewer if there are not five in the main queue) are let into the ride area. The new customer gets on as a customer gets off the Ferris wheel. Note that there can be more current riders than new customers, or more new customers than current riders. It requires UNIF(0.05, 0.15) minute to unload a current rider and UNIF(0.1, 0.2) to load a new rider. The Ferris wheel has only five single seats spaced about 10 feet apart. The wheel rotates at a velocity of 20 feet per minute. Each customer gets two revolutions on the wheel, and no new riders are allowed to board until the ride is complete. Riders who get off the wheel run to the exit, which takes 2 minutes. Run 1 replication for 10 hours, and the base time is minutes. (Hints: Use a conveyor to represent the Ferris wheel itself. Use wait/signal to implement the loading and unloading rules.) By the way, the Ferris wheel was developed by the American engineer G.W.G. Ferris, who died in 1896; its German name is Riesenrad, which translates roughly as “giant wheel.”