Change variable during experiment run

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Jorge Manuel Garcia asked Oct 21, '16 Jorge Manuel Garcia commented May 9, '19

Change variable during experiment run

Hi everyone:

I'd like to do the following, but I'm not sure if it's possible:

- I have an experiment with a variable (number of operators)

- The experiment runs for 16 hours

- I'd like to test a measure I defined (number of pallets processed) having 1 operator working for 8 hours and 2 operators for 2 hours (to simulate 2 shifts with different manpower).

Is there a way I can instruct Flexsim to do it?

Note: Someone could answer that I just have to run 8 hours and add the values for this combination (but to be strict, I had to take into account the different possibilities: add each value from first shift to second shift, so if I have, for example,100 measures, I'd have 100*100 for the combination)

Thank you all :)

Software Version:

FlexSim 16.2.1

experimenter scenario experiment variable

Answer 1 · 2016-10-21T20:49:37Z

Sam Stubbs answered Oct 21, '16 Jorge Manuel Garcia commented May 9, '19

You can create multiple Time Tables representing all the different shift scenarios you want to test. There's an option (a checkbox in the upper right corner) in the Time Table preferences to enable/disable a time table you've created.

Then in your scenarios in your experimenter, one of the variable options you can choose is to enable or disable a given Time Table.

So what I would do, is create a Time Table that demonstrates the 8 hours of 1 operator and 2 hours of 2. And then create a new time table for any other shift combinations you want to check out. And then run experiments with the different Time Tables that way.

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Jorge Manuel Garcia commented · Oct 21, 2016 at 09:42 PM

Thanks! I wasn't familiar with timetables. Now it's solved :)

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