Theses and Dissertations from UMD

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    A Model-Based Systems Engineering Simulation: Analysis and Design of Hospital Bed Maintenance in Critical Health Care Systems
    (2018) Dávila Andino, Arturo; Fu, Michael C.; Wood, Kenneth E.; Systems Engineering; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This thesis summarizes the results of various methodologies integrated to solve a staffing problem when cleaning and maintaining hospital beds. First, a simplified systems engineering design model was developed to translate the need for reducing the total turnaround time of maintaining hospital beds into a performance requirement of the average time a hospital bed waits for service. The tools that were used were queueing analysis, discrete-event simulation modeling, and optimization via simulation. Finally, this work presents the derived staffing requirements from the pertinent measure of effectiveness, the average waiting time.