I will post a formalized methodology for finding warm-up titme of a simulation model. However, first a simple method. Plot a graph of throughput versus time. You should see a graph that increases initially and eventually stabilizes or falls into a cyclic pattern. The time of stabilization or repeating pattern is where your warmup period ends and results collection period begins.
Last edited by kvasudevan : 12-14-2007 at 04:23 PM.
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