GPSS/CK
Discrete-event simulation

Understand the queue.
Explore the choices.

What happens when more work arrives, a machine fails, or another person joins the team? Explore the consequences with GPSS/CK before changing the real system.

A pen-and-ink illustration of Joe’s Barber Shop: a barber serves a customer while other customers wait, in a German shop around 1962.
Joe’s Barber Shop · A classic GPSS example

From a model to a better decision

Describe the operation

Model arrivals, queues, resources, processing times, and routing using the familiar GPSS block-and-transaction approach.

Try the alternatives

Investigate staffing, capacity, inventory, and reliability. Change an assumption and compare what happens.

Understand the evidence

Study waiting times and resource use, account for uncertainty, and ask whether the results support your decision.

The accompanying training book

Queues, Clocks, and Choices

Discrete-Event Simulation with GPSS/CK
By Dr. Christian Klukas

Learn through practical models, worked explanations, and exercises—from the first queue to complete simulation studies of service, production, inventory, and economic decisions.

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