Is there any way I can use a source to produce a specific amount per item types on spread of exponential?
Currently, I'm using source to produce only 1 item type evenly per day by using the exponential distribution.
Like for example, day 1 produce 100 item type 1, day 2 to produce 30 item type 2 and 70 item type 1.
How can I schedule the source to do so?
@Terra K. The way we always solve this is by using a source with an Arrival schedule. Let the items for that day arrive at the beginning of the day and put a processor behind it with a uniform distribution between 0 and 28800 (0 and 8 hours). This means that your products arrive exponentially distributed over the day at the end of the processor.
@steven.hamoen Thank you, so at the arrival schedule I would need to put the arrival times for each day in seconds, and process time in d uniform?
eg. ArrivalTime: 0 , ItemName: Product1, Quantity: 100, Type: 1
ArrivalTime: 72000 , ItemName: Product2, Quantity: 30, Type: 2
ArrivalTime: 72000 , ItemName: Product1, Quantity: 70, Type: 1
And for Process Time for processor: duniform(0, 28800, 0)
@Terra K.I would use uniform and not duniform, but considering this is seconds, duniform should also work. The rest is correct.
@steven.hamoen I've followed accordingly, But it took around 4hrs 40mins to process 1 item instead
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