ABSTRACT
Management of the Delta plant, part of a division of the Chamberlain Steel Company, intended to install a number of furnaces in a melting shop. The furnaces were to be complemented by the appropriate number of cranes needed to service them. Plant management were faced with the problem of predicting how many cranes would be optimal for the servicing task. It was decided to request the company's Department of Operational Research, which was located in a separate departmental building some miles away, to carry out a full-scale simulation of the number of cranes needed.
