Base Simulation Setup

I simulate the configuration of Owen Graduate Hall at Michigan State University. Owen Graduate Hall houses approximately 850 students. Owen has one laundry room with sixteen washers and sixteen dryers. Washers have a service time of 26 minutes. Dryers have a service time of 60 minutes.

Students are assumed to need to do laundry every two weeks on average. It is assumed that students take an average of two loads of laundry on each trip with a standard deviation of 2. Based on the population size and frequency of laundry events, one student should arrive at approximately every 40 minutes.

It assumed that it takes a student five minutes to unload their laundry from machines, on average (with a standard deviation of two minutes). With this information, we can calculate that, assuming no waiting time, it will take a student 96 minutes to do their laundry.

The simulation is run for one year of simulated time and with a random number seed of 1.