Client The Polyethylene manufacturing process at Eastman Chemical Company had been steadily improved over the past several years to the point where railcar cleaning and loading had become the bottleneck. Several alternatives with capital costs between $150,000 and $500,000 were being considered to increase the capacity of the railcar cleaning and loading operations, but the usual methods to determine the most appropriate alternative were not accurate enough due to the complexity of the situation, the highly variable nature of the cleaning and loading process, and the large investment at risk, therefore simulation was the tool of choice to analyze this problem and identify the solution. Provide management with answers to the following questions to facilitate their decision making proce

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