DES with Maya

This is my first DES (Discrete Event Simulation) experiment with SimPy language and to visualize it I used Maya.

Problem: Six dump trucks are used to haul coal from a small mine to the railroad station. Each truck is loaded by one of two loaders. After loading, the truck immediately moves to the scale to be weighed. The loaders and the scale have a queue for trucks. After being weighed, a truck begins a travel time (during wich the truck unloads) and returns to the loader queue.

Purpose: Estimate the loader and scale usage (% of time busy).

Notes: All data generated from the code and the statistics are outputted in Maya’s Script Editor. Trucks will overlap at both queues because I wanted to keep the Maya scene as simple as possible, but all the rest should be OK.

Reference: Discrete-Event System Simulation -  J. Banks

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