Using Time Table Resume function to model vacation/holiday?

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Hai L2 asked Apr 12, '21 Hai L2 commented Apr 12, '21

Hi,

I have this idea of how to model vacation or holiday:

There is a holiday timetable with specific days marked. During down, a global flag IsHoliday is marked to indicate holiday time. During resume, the flag is clear to indicate no holiday.
The operators are assigned weekly repeating, daily schedule as shift timetable.
In the operator shift time table resume function, if IsHoliday is true, then set the operator state to not available. (Holiday date is defined so that it will happen before shift start).
Likewise, on shift time table resume, we can roll the dice if the operator is taking a vacation that day.

Would that work?

Is there any issue with immediately setting the operator to an unavaible state in the resume function?

Thanks,

Hai

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.2

Answer 1 · 2021-04-12T15:21:06Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Apr 12, '21 Hai L2 commented Apr 12, '21

Just add them to a holiday timetable that issues an addtional stop on the object (stops accumulate).

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Hai L2 commented · Apr 12, 2021 at 03:25 PM

Would the daily resume of the shift schedule or cancel the holiday stop?

Additionally, there are 9 shifts with different start time, would that mean there should be 9 holiday time tables?

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Hai L2 commented · Apr 12, 2021 at 03:39 PM

Generally if an object has been stopped twice and resumed once then it's still stopped until the number of resumes matches the stops.

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Hai L2 Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Apr 12, 2021 at 05:47 PM

I did not know that. Thanks.

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