Set model to follow TimeTable, not just Operators

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Jason Merschat asked Feb 26, '18 Jordan Johnson edited Feb 27, '18

Set model to follow TimeTable, not just Operators

Is it possible to set the Model itself to follow a TimeTable and not just elements in the model. For example. I want the facility to operate 24/5 - Monday through Friday. I don't want the weekend time to affect statistics such as operator utilization, throughput rates and so forth. Can this be isolated or do I need to adjust for this timetable in a statistics collector somehow?

I know I can adjust the Utilization calculation in the dashboard object, but maybe not the throughput calculation.

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Answer 1 · 2018-02-27T17:21:45Z

Jordan Johnson answered Feb 27, '18 Jordan Johnson edited Feb 27, '18

I don't think the timetable can shut down the entire model directly.

If you are using Process Flow, you might be able to have a resource that most of the flows in the model try to acquire, and then immediately release. Then you could spawn a token that acquires that resource on Friday night, and releases it on Monday morning. Everything else would wait for that item to come back.

If you are not using process flow, you might just have to count the number of days that the model has been running, and divide by five to get the number of weeks. At that point, you might be better off not using the time-based axis in your charts, as they would be misleading.

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