Problem while entering distributions in date time source

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Cristian505 asked Nov 25, '22 Andrew O commented Nov 30, '22

Problem while entering distributions in date time source

I made a date time source in my process flow to assign different data distributions to each day for the arrival of the trucks in my model, the problem is that if I put distributions in the quantity column, flexsim tells me I have an error, when I put only values in this column I don´t have any problem but I need to assign distributions to each day, how can I fix this problem ?

Pregunta distribuciones en date source.jpgIn the attached image you can see where I am assigning the distributions.

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FlexSim 22.2.1

processflow datetimesource

pregunta-distribuciones-en-date-source.jpg (184.4 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Nov 25, 2022 at 05:09 AM

Perhaps you can parse Quantity as a Parameter into this feature. Parameter is a tool feature to control experiments.

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Andrew O commented · Nov 30, 2022 at 06:16 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-11-25T05:02:54Z

Joerg Vogel answered Nov 25, '22 Joerg Vogel edited Nov 25, '22

Maybe it is not a problem. It is just the restriction of this feature. Sometimes you cannot realize something you want to achieve directly. You can create one token at a beginning of a time interval, compute the amount of items for this interval and by this the interarrival time of items to create in this interval. There are methods to evaluate strings to get executed as commands in FlexScript API.

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