Event-Triggered Source based on Inventory

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Kathryn McNeal asked Aug 28, '17 Jeff Nordgren rolled back Sep 12, '17

Event-Triggered Source based on Inventory

I'm trying to have a source in process flow create a token when the inventory falls below a certain value, we'll say 10. I'm open to tracking the inventory in different ways: quantity in a final queue, value in a table, list, etc. This will be part of a very large/complex model that is used a lot, so I am also concerned about computational efficiency. For this reason, I'm concerned that simply executing a decision that checks the inventory every time a new object enters the final queue is going to slow down the model. How would you recommend doing this?

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FlexSim 17.0.4

event-triggered source inventory

Answer 1 · 2017-08-28T17:49:58Z

Jacob Gillespie answered Aug 28, '17 Jeff Nordgren rolled back Sep 12, '17

@Kathryn McNeal

Here is my answer to a similar question.

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Kathryn McNeal commented · Aug 28, 2017 at 07:13 PM

@Jacob Gillespie, Thanks! Can you think of a similar way to do this if you track the inventory in a global table? Ideally we would do that so we don't have thousands of items needlessly sitting around in the model.

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Jordan Johnson ♦♦ Kathryn McNeal commented · Aug 28, 2017 at 09:32 PM

@Kathryn McNeal

If you assign Tracked Variable data to the cell, then you should be able to listen to that cell in the same way.

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