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Luis Gaytan asked Jason Lightfoot commented

Optquest Maximize throughput through a Line up in a Global Table

Good afternoon,

I have a demand in order by line up on a global table, what I want to do is to maximize throughput through the optimizer optquest to get differents line up which I can produce more product. Flexsim 19 had "Variables" in optquest so that variables I want to put it in Flexsim 22 as the "Orden" Row.

An average of 6 products per labor day, so this trouhgput. I'm calculating from another global table.

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I'm beginner in this software:)

Luis Gaytán

FlexSim 22.0.6
optimizeroptquest manuallineup
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Kavika F avatar image Kavika F ♦ commented ·

Hey @Luis Gaytan, based on your second screenshot, it looks like that's an Experiment job. An Optimization job should look like this (similar to Experimenter but has a few more views):

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You should be able to click the Green + button in the top left to add an Optimization job, then select the Objective below to Maximize based on a function.

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Luis Gaytan avatar image Luis Gaytan Kavika F ♦ commented ·
Yeah, I want to use optimizer to get the best mix model by line up order. I have already edit my question. Thank you @Kavika F!
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Joerg Vogel answered Jason Lightfoot commented

You want probably test a variation of incoming products to get a best fitting sequence. This is not a feature of an optimizer. An optimizer can choose from an already set list of variation. This means you must write a logic that creates sequences, that you can choose or build upon simple input values which an optimizer can vary in experiments. It will maybe a brute force approach to get to an desired result.

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Luis Gaytan avatar image Luis Gaytan commented ·
Does experimenter helps me with the variation by order of the products? because I want to check what happens if the simulation produce in different order the line up. Thank you very much! @Joerg Vogel
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Jason Lightfoot avatar image Jason Lightfoot ♦ Luis Gaytan commented ·
If you use random streams to generate the orders then these will change during the scenarios tested and you should specify the number of replications (alternate order scenarios) as part of each trial.
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Diego Avila answered

Hi Luis,

You could also try to change your value reference from your performance measure using the dropper and click on your Global Table:

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And as Joerg comment below, you must write a logic that creates sequences, that you can choose or buid upon simple input values which an optimizer can vary in experiments:

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