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I'm trying to use Time Table to simulate operational hours of the simulation, and I need to set different operational times by building for the factory that I'm working on. How would you do this, and is it possible to control this with the Process Flow Zones? I have an Inter-arrival source, because it's not feasible to use scheduled sources for what I'm modeling. If anyone has any examples they would recommend of this, that would be very helpful.
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If the Process Flow is used to control the flow of items in a 3d model, it is often times enough to set up a time table for the 3d objects (Stop processors, operators, etc.). A token in the Process Flow would for example wait in a task activity until that task is completed, which would not happen until the respective task executer is active again.
In order to not have new tokens enter during the down time, I would just place a decide activity directly after the source and send tokens directly to a sink during the down time. (Conditional Decide: "Model.dateTime.hour > X && Model.dateTime.hour < Y").
Thank you for your response! How would you incorporate days into this? For example, if it is Week Days only, and you want to exclude weekends.
You can also check the day in the datetime class: "Model.dateTime.dayOfWeek"
(Returns a number that corresponds to the current day of the week; 1 for sunday, 2 for monday and so on)
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