How can I simplify this escorting patients model

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Tee Hiett asked Mar 23, '20 Tee Hiett commented Mar 30, '20

How can I simplify this escorting patients model

As we frequently include companions in our model to help select the number of seats in the waiting room I decided to expand the model that Matthew developed in Flexsim.Answers. (I'm not sure how to provide a link to that conversation.) The attached model is my effort to add more companions and assign probabilities to their arrivals. In this model, there can be 0, 1 or 2 companions.

The model runs and could be used to provide answers within the those limits. I have studied the model and look for a way to simplify the program and to expand the capability to a larger number of companions e.g. 5 or 6. There must be a simpler way to do this without having to modify the program each time.

What say @Matthew Gillespie, @Cliff King?

Thanks,

Tee

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FlexSim 20.0.3

healthcare 2020 escorting patient simplify model

escortingcompanions-10.fsm (76.8 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2020-03-23T19:51:52Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Mar 23, '20 Tee Hiett commented Mar 30, '20

This is a good place to use a subflow. You can have the subflow create as many tokens as you have companions.

variablecompanions.fsm

variablecompanions.fsm (73.9 KiB)

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Tee Hiett commented · Mar 30, 2020 at 09:03 PM

@Matthew Gillespie

Thanks for taking the time to help me. My major problem( among was I did not think of creating an label named Companions and putting an array into that label.

Tee

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