Can I use a single source to set interarrival times based on item type?

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Nicholas D asked Sep 18 2018 at 7:42 PM tannerp commented Mar 19 2019 at 4:55 PM

Can I use a single source to set interarrival times based on item type?

I am looking to use a single source in order to create multiple incoming item types with different interarrival times. I am having a problem doing this because I cannot reference the global table cells or item labels without first creating the entity. Is there any solution to the problem without creating multiple sources (I have 174 item types so creating a separate source for each of these would be a pain)?

global table source item type inter-arrival time

Answer 1 · 2018-09-18T19:58:23Z

Joshua S answered Sep 18 2018 at 7:58 PM tannerp commented Mar 19 2019 at 4:55 PM

See if this model is what you are looking for, in process flow it creates a token for every row in your table and then executes the inter arrival time for the delay activity.

seperate-arrival-times.fsm

seperate-arrival-times.fsm (25.1 KiB)

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Nicholas D commented · Sep 18 2018 at 8:04 PM

This works great! Thank you!

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Phil BoBo ♦♦ Nicholas D commented · Sep 18 2018 at 8:08 PM

Here's another similar example: one-source-multiple-interarrival-times.fsm

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one-source-multiple-interarrival-times.fsm (21.3 KiB)

mohammad A3 commented · Mar 14 2019 at 4:30 AM

Can i do it with out global table?

im trying to solve Exercise 5-2 Even More Lucky Air Page 154...nut they did not mention any global tables in the solution?

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tannerp mohammad A3 commented · Mar 14 2019 at 7:17 PM

You can do this within the source, but it's a lot more tedious if you need to change something. Here's an example table where you can change arrival times, quantities, labels, etc.

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table-in-source.png (29.3 KiB)

mohammad A3 tannerp commented · Mar 15 2019 at 3:24 AM

What if i want to use the D empirical function?

how can i do it?

@Tanner poulton

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