I'm a very new student user so this may be obvious. My operators make a lot of decisions about which task to perform so my model is mainly controlled by a complex ProcessFlow. How can I run scenarios with number of operators and number of machines as the variables. I don't have a dispatcher.
If you link an operator to a resource block in process flow, you can reference the number of operators to a global variable. Then in the experimenter change the global variable to run scenarios changing the number of operators.
1. Create global variable from the toolbox. In the example, I named it "numOperators".
2. In the process flow, create a resource. Link the reference to an operator in 3D and set the count as the global variable.
3. Go to the experimenter and setup the parameters. Under the scenarios tab add a variable. You can search the tree for the variable's data node. In the example model it looks like this:
MODEL:/Tools/GlobalVariables/numOperators/Data
Now use the experimenter as normal: create scenarios for the number of operators, set the performance measures, and run. In the example, the performance measure is the time spent in the process flow Zone.
Hope this helps!
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