Varying the process time according to the number of operators?

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night asked Oct 21, '23 Jason Lightfoot commented Oct 30, '23

Varying the process time according to the number of operators?

I have a bunch of operators connected to a dispatcher which would send them the various separators that are empty, but my issue now is how can I program such that i can send out my operators such that there will no longer be any excess operators in the "rest bay" and ensure that each separator will still have one operator? And the process time will change according to how many operators there are? I am not sure how will the process time change since I do not have the figures for it. Is it possible to have flexsim to calculate it themselves?

Basically I have 9 operators and 3 separators, the separators work in random order, free for all basically.

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FlexSim 23.1.1

operator dispatcher seperator processortime

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Oct 30, 2023 at 11:57 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-10-21T08:22:04Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Oct 21, '23 Jason Lightfoot edited Oct 30, '23

Check the answer to this question which is based on filling a table to define the work content on how long it would take with a different number of operators present from start to finish. From that understands the loss of productivity when people leave and join mid process.

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night commented · Oct 21, 2023 at 09:07 AM

Sorry, would you mind explaining what is happening in the updated program? Mainly the part on the process flow. From what i understand, the operators will go to their individual source when there is a flow item that needs to be sent, otherwise they will go over to the fixed resource? Do you mind telling me more about the fixed resource and the process flow?

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ night commented · Oct 22, 2023 at 01:17 PM

Sure, what's not clear for you?

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night Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Oct 23, 2023 at 05:22 AM

Thank you, basically I am not sure what is happening in the fixed resource. And not sure how the process flow works.

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Answer 2 · 2023-10-25T17:24:35Z

Jeanette F answered Oct 25, '23

Hello @night,

Here is one other solution that uses a tracked variable to track a dynamic processing time

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