How to use schedule source? (Processflow)

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Byron H2 asked Aug 20, '19 Matthew Gillespie answered Aug 20, '19

How to use schedule source? (Processflow)

In the schedule source inside arrivals section is time, name and quantity. What I believe is that when I put "33" in quantity at time "0" is that at the start of the simulation will be entering 33 persons. But when I look at the run animation inside the "pick table" process, the people entering is of 115. Why this happens? How can make that at the start of the simulation enter any quantity of people?

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FlexSim 19.1.0

process flow schedule source

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Answer 1 · 2019-08-20T23:05:34Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Aug 20, '19

The schedule source creates tokens not people. The tokens then move through the activities in the process flow doing other things including creating people in the 3D view and making them walk around and sit down.

First the schedule source creates a number of tokens. Then each token goes to the Assign Party Size and Color activity where the token is assigned a PartySize label. Then each token goes to the Create Party activity. The Create Party activity makes a number of new tokens equal to the Party Size label and puts them in the Create Party activity. Finally, these new tokens in the Create Party subflow move to the Create Person activity and a person is created. This happens for every token created by the Create Party activity times the number of tokens created in the schedule source.

This model is interesting because the process flow uses a token to represent a group of people all showing up at the same time. The group token then creates child tokens to create and control the individual members of the group when it needs to.

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