Simulation Made Easy

Book excerpt: Today's rapidly changing marketplace can seem like a jungle for many professionals. Engineering & Management Press offers the books needed to navigate through the wilderness of business techniques and acronyms. EMP's titles provide practical information and proven business methods for most corporate and industrial environments. Our titles cover crucial, timely topics of importance to businesses and managers today -- management, productivity improvement, quality, and related issues. Businesses face increasing challenges to develop better systems for providing goods and services. Computer simulation allows them to improve significantly the design and operation of manufacturing and service systems, In fact, simulation has emerged as the premier decision-making tool during improvement processes. Simulation experts Harrell and Tumay have collaborated to produce Simulation Made Easy, a practical, how-to guide that explains how managers, engineers, and other key decision-makers can use simulation as a business tool for increasing profitability, reducing costs, and maintaining their competitive advantage. Simulation Made Easy is an indispensable reference for any engineer, manager, student, or organization committed to getting the most from all available resources.