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Number of Arrivals

Hi FlexSim community,

Is "Custom Arrivals" the only option where you can configure number of arrivals? Was wanting to get say 6 patients to come in together using "Inter-arrival Times", "Hourly Arrivals", and "Appointments", but unable to do so.

Thanks in advance for helping!

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Hourly Arrivals

The number that you put in a cell of the Hourly Arrivals table is the number of patients that will arrive during that 1 hour period. If you want them all to show up at the same time change the Arrival Spacing to All at once.

Appointments

This table lets you define individual appointments. If you want 6 patients to arrive at the same time you need to make 6 separate appointments that share the same appointment time.

Inter-Arrival Times

There's not really a way to set a quantity on this arrival style. It's a fairly simplistic arrival style meant mostly to generate a simple stream of arrivals for testing purposes or certain clinic type models.

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Thanks Matt!

Looks like we are going to go ahead with using the "Appointments" to indicate the timings for our 6 patients for the 6 consultation rooms. We will be introducing variability to allow for early and late arrivals.

In this case, when we eventually get down to Experiments, is there a way to initialize the number of patients to match the number of doctors/consultrooms at each run? Suppose I do 10 runs, with ascending number of MDs from 1 to 10, I want to initialize my number of patients in the appointments table to equal the number of MDs for that run.

Is this going to be a challenge?=)

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The most commonly used method is an experiment variable that replaces the appointments table with the values in a global table. So you would have to create a new global table for each scenario. You could also use a custom code experiment variable and write a little script to populate the appointments table the way you want.

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Thanks so much, that's gonna be helpful!

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