Assigning and Updating Chute Capacity

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Kadircan T asked Dec 12, '22 Kadircan T commented Dec 12, '22

Assigning and Updating Chute Capacity

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Hi,

In the attached model, at the beginning of the simulation, I assign capacities from the empirical distribution to the Chutes [1], and after the whole process is complete, the staff inserts a new sack and the Chute capacity is updated [3]. What I want to do is to create a token for each chute when 70% of the assigned Chute capacity is reached at the start of the simulation, but I cannot refer to the label I created in section [1] in the event triggered source [2]. I've only written a number there as a representation right now. I would appreciate your help.

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.2.2

event trigger label value

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Answer 1 · 2022-12-12T09:53:47Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Dec 12, '22 Kadircan T commented Dec 12, '22

Whatever value you enter as the target amount will be evaluated only on model reset and stay fixed after that. So to my knowledge it is not possible to use this event with variable target quantities.

You could simply listen to any entry into the chutes and then check if the capacity was reached in a Decide activity. If not, directly sink the token again.

To prevent having more than one token enter the Process Flow proper, you can then use a list, paritioned by the chute objects, with a max. partition content of 1. Any surpuls tokens are then also send to a sink.

chute-cap-update-v8.fsm

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Kadircan T commented · Dec 12, 2022 at 11:13 AM

Thank you so much it helped me a lot :)

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