Suppose that a simulation model is built for a manufacturing system consisting of a large number of machines in series separated by buffers (queues).
Since the computer execution time of the model is excessive, it is decided to divide the model into two submodels.
The first submode! is run and the departure time of each part (and any other required attributes) is written to a file.
The second submodel is executed by driving it with the information stored in the file.
Discuss the legitimacy of this modeling approach.