Repeating Each Arrival In Schedule Source

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Rober G asked Aug 22, '23 Rober G commented Aug 23, '23

Repeating Each Arrival In Schedule Source

Good day, I trust you are well :)

I am wondering if there is a way to repeat the arrival of each arrival from the scheduled source. Instead of repeating the whole schedule before line 1 gets repeated can I repeat line one for example every 357120 seconds instead of it waiting for the whole schedule to finish? Therefore line 2 will also repeat every 366904 seconds and remain independent from other arrivals.

I understand this can be achieved by separate sources, but I don't wish to create a 74 sources or do 74 time by case.

Any help is appreciated!

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FlexSim 23.0.10

source schedule arrival table arrival times

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Answer 1 · 2023-08-22T20:34:23Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Aug 22, '23 Rober G commented Aug 23, '23

The Scheduled Source activity can't do this by itself. But you could use a simple loop with a Delay activity to create repeating arrivals.

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For example, in this model I moved the arrival time column to a new Interval label column and set all the arrival times to 0.

I then have those tokens wait in the delay for token.Interval seconds before creating an item. The token then loops back to the delay activity to begin delaying again.

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Rober G commented · Aug 23, 2023 at 05:35 AM

Thank you!

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