Performance Evaluation of Industrial Systems: Discrete Event Simulation in Using Excel/VBA, 2/e (Hardcover)

Basic approaches to discrete simulation have been process simulation languages (e.g., GPSS) and event-scheduling type (e.g., SIMSCRIPT). The trade-offs are that event-scheduling languages offer more modeling flexibility and process-oriented languages are more intuitive to the user. With these considerations in mind, authors David Elizandro and Hamdy Taha embarked on the development of a new discrete simulation environment that is easy to use, yet flexible enough to model complex production systems. They introduced this environment, Design Environment for Event Driven Simulation (DEEDS), in Simulation of Industrial Systems: Discrete Event Simulation in Using Excel/VBA. The DEEDS environment is itself an Excel/VBA add-in.

Based on this foundation, the second edition, now titled Performance Evaluation of Industrial Systems: Discrete Event Simulation in Using Excel/VBA incorporates the use of discrete simulation to statistically analyze a system and render the most efficient time sequences, designs, upgrades, and operations. This updated edition includes new visualization graphics for DEEDS software, improvements in the optimization of the simulation algorithms, a new chapter on queuing models, and an Excel 2007 version of the DEEDS software. Organized into three parts, the book presents concepts of discrete simulation, covers DEEDS, and discusses a variety of applications using DEEDS.

The flexibility of DEEDS makes it a great tool for students or novices to learn concepts of discrete simulation and this book can form the basis of an introductory undergraduate course on simulation. The expanded depth of coverage in the second edition gives it a richness other introductory texts do not have and provides practitioners a reference for their simulation projects. It may also be used as a research tool by faculty and graduate students who are interested in "optimizing" production systems.

基本的離散模擬方法包括過程模擬語言（例如GPSS）和事件排程類型（例如SIMSCRIPT）。其中的取捨是，事件排程語言提供更多的建模靈活性，而過程導向語言對使用者更直觀。基於這些考慮，作者David Elizandro和Hamdy Taha開始開發一個新的離散模擬環境，該環境易於使用，同時又足夠靈活，可以建模複雜的生產系統。他們在《Simulation of Industrial Systems: Discrete Event Simulation in Using Excel/VBA》中介紹了這個環境，稱為Design Environment for Event Driven Simulation（DEEDS）。DEEDS環境本身是一個Excel/VBA插件。

基於這個基礎，第二版現在更名為《Performance Evaluation of Industrial Systems: Discrete Event Simulation in Using Excel/VBA》，將離散模擬應用於統計分析系統，並提供最有效的時間序列、設計、升級和操作。這個更新的版本包括DEEDS軟件的新可視化圖形，優化模擬算法，一個關於排隊模型的新章節，以及DEEDS軟件的Excel 2007版本。本書分為三個部分，介紹了離散模擬的概念，介紹了DEEDS，並討論了使用DEEDS的各種應用。

DEEDS的靈活性使其成為學生或新手學習離散模擬概念的絕佳工具，本書可以作為離散模擬入門本科課程的基礎。第二版的深度擴展使其具有其他入門教材所沒有的豐富性，並為從業人員提供了他們模擬項目的參考。它還可以作為對“優化”生產系統感興趣的教師和研究生的研究工具。