OMS PROBLEMS FOR PRACTICE

11. Assembly process has the following components with associated probability of success. If all
components work well, then final product will pass the quality check (QC). Simulate for 10
products and find %of rejection rate.
Component A Probability Component B- Probability Component C- Probability Component D- Probability
Accelerator Break Clutch Disk
Working 90% Strong 95% Smooth 60% Rhythm 70%
Striking 10% Fail 5% Hard 40% Noise 30%

12. A departmental store shelf has 100 bars capacity and it is full now. Demand pattern from the POS
is given.
Demand Number of customers Time interval (min) of incident
1 50 10
2 40 10
5 5 10
10 5 10
How long will it take to shelf becomes empty. After simulation suggest how to take this problem
to next level in business decisions.
13. An event management company conducts one-day workshops with a renowned speaker. When a
popular speaker is booked, a good pattern of customers registered compared to a normal speaker as
given below.
Number of workshops held with
Number of customers popular speaker normal speaker
10 10 80
20 20 10
30 50 10
40 20 -
50 10 -
TOTAL 100 100
Cost matrix is given below
Type of Program Business related Hobby related
Popular Speaker Rs 100000 per day Rs 50000 per day
Normal Speaker Rs 20000 per day Rs 20000 per day
Revenue matrix is given below
 Type of Program Business related Hobby related
Popular Speaker Rs 10000 per participant Rs 5000 per participant
Normal Speaker Rs 5000 per participant Rs 3000 per participant
Five Business workshops and five hobby workshops are conducted. Simulate two models with a
popular speaker and normal speaker with the profit model and compare.
14. Data usage and call usage follows the following patterns.
Data #days Calls #days
500 mb 20 20 min 12
700 mb 50 30 min 18
900 mb 30 40 min 30
50 min 20
60 min 20
If per day allowance is 500 mb and 30 minutes of call, then how many days will it exceed the
same (simulate for a month using random number of your choice).
15. A used car show room owner buys 3 cars per day, but the sales will vary based on the demand and
it is given in the following distribution. If a sale is less than 2, he has to keep the vehicle at a
parking station where he has to pay rent Rs 200 per day per car. Simulate for 5 days and calculate
total rent (inventory) cost. Use Monte-carlo procedure with random numbers 44, 03, 89, 23, 13
Sales 1 2 3
No. of days 10 20 20
16. A consultancy company has projects which follows uniform probability distribution as
Inter arrival time : 1 month 2 months 3 months
No. of projects: 5 8 13
If the number of project waiting exceeds 20 at any moment, the company will not accept the same.
Simulate for 6 months and find service level. Use Monte-carlo procedure with random numbers
44, 03, 89, 23, 13
17. Use Monte Carlo procedure with random numbers of your choice. Simulate the sales for 10 days
and find average inventory if 20 items produced every day. Items are non-perishable.
Sales 10 20 30
No. of days 10 20 20
18. A software company has projects which follows discrete probability distribution.
Defects (non-conformity) identified (c) Proportion of projects (probability)
0 0.2
 1 0.4
2 0.3
3 0.05
4 0.05
Simulate for five projects and draw a c chart and plot all the c values in graph. Check whether the
process is under control with UCL=Cbar+3*sqrt (Cbar). (Use random numbers of your choice).
Use Monte Carlo procedure with random numbers 44, 03, 89, 23, 13, 65.
19. A software project has three activity such as System analysis (A), Design (B) and Implementation
(C) which are uncertain in time duration. But the probability distribution of these activities is given
as follows.
Activity Activity Activity
A B C
Time Probability Time Probability Time Probability
10 0.3 10 0.1 10 0.2
20 0.5 20 0.5 20 0.6
30 0.2 30 0.4 30 0.2
Simulate for only one project with A, B and C activity time and find the project completion time if
A, B and C are done one by one in respective order. Use random numbers of your choice.
20. A Psychiatric doctor has given appointments to his patients in an half an hour interval. He has the
past experience of service times of the customers. Simulate by Monte Carlo the arrival using the
random numbers of your choice and find waiting times of customers. Frame research questions
from the results for proposals of alternative models.
Consultancy time(min) 20 25 30 35 40
Number of patients 15 20 30 20 15
11. Use Monte Carlo procedure with random numbers of your choice. Simulate the sales for 10 days
and find average inventory if 20 items produced every day. Items are non-perishable.
Sales 10 20 30
No. of days 20 40 40
21. A software company has projects which follows discrete probability distribution.
Inter arrival time : 1 month 2 months 3 months
No. of projects : 10 15 20
 If the number of project waiting exceeds 20 at any moment, the company will not accept the same.
Simulate for 6 months and find service level. Use Monte Carlo procedure with your random
numbers.
22. Simulate for 10 customers by Monte Carlo the arrival using the random numbers of your choice
and find waiting times of customers. Arrival is constant time 30 minutes.

Service time (min) 20 25 30 35 40 45

Number of customers 5 19 32 29 3 1
23. Simulate with random numbers of your choice, the Quality characteristics for 15 samples again
and overdraw on this graph keeping the same control limits.
Quality characteristic 8 9 10 11 12
P 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.2

24. A software company has projects which follows discrete probability distribution.
Inter arrival time of the projects (months) 1 2 3
Number of Projects 30 50 20
Simulate 6 projects with time stamps. Random numbers 23, 32, 33, 76, 04, 35.
25. Simulate for 10 customers in a bank by Monte Carlo the arrival using the random numbers of your
choice and find waiting times of customers.
Inter arrival time (min) 30 35 40
Number of customers 25 50 35
 Service time (min) 20 25 30 35 40
Number of customers 5 20 30 30 15
26. Simulate with random numbers of your choice, the c values for 15 samples again and overdraw on
this graph keeping the control limits (c –chart).
Number of bubbles in each sample (c) 0 1 2 3 4
Probability of occurrences 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.2
27. A software company has issues raised by customers, which follow discrete probability distribution
as given below. Use random number of your choice if solutions are given in a constant rate of 25
minutes for each issue; find what the average inventory level of issues is.
Inter arrival time of issues (minutes) Number of issues
10 33
20 17
30 20
40 30
28. Moulds used for making rings in a manufacturing company may wear out as per the following probability
distribution.
Number of items Time (hours) of failure (Life time)
100 20
200 50
300 20
400 10
Simulate for 10 hours and find how many failures we can expect.
29. A Bore well drilling machine is required it can be rented from a owner. However, the lead time is not fixed
and it is given in the following table.
Lead time (days) Number of times
1 40
2 40
3 10
4 10
Simulate for 5 times, find average lead time.
30. A movie is usually produced based on investment borrowed from a financier who lends at 3% per month
interest on principal amount only. Within a year both principal and interest are to be repaid. If not 5%
interest on rest of the period for pending both principal and interest. From the past experience films have
been shot in following time durations.
Time duration (months) Number of movies completed
3 12
6 18
9 36
12 14
15 10
18 10
Simulate for 10 movies how much money a producer pay as interest if he has 20 cr budget movies in each
case. Find average.
31. A retail company purchase and sell the FMCG goods on demand. The purchase price is based on the month
sale as given in the following table.
Sales volume in a month Purchase price Probability of happening so
1000 Rs 20000 per piece .3
2000 Rs 18000 per piece .4
3000 Rs 15000 per piece .2
4000 Rs 12000 per piece .1
Simulate for 10 months and total expense for purchase. What strategy may be possible to reduce the
expense?