Patients arriving in groups

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Raul R3 asked Sep 11 2019 at 2:41 AM Cliff King edited Sep 12 2019 at 5:21 PM

Patients arriving in groups

Hello all,

In my model, patients arrive using an elevator. Therefore, they constantly arrive in groups. Those groups can be composed of 2 to 5 patients. However, they can also arrive individually. I'd like to know if I can make my arrival pattern create those groups randomly, without altering my arrival-time distribution. The percentages are as follow:

Individual 20%

Pairs 21%

Groups of 3 19%

Groups of 4 18%

Groups of 5 22%

Attached is my current model.

oftalmologia.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim HC 5.3.10

groups patient arrivals patients

oftalmologia.fsm (330.3 KiB)

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Answer 1 · 2019-09-11T23:52:20Z

Cliff King answered Sep 11 2019 at 11:52 PM Cliff King edited Sep 12 2019 at 5:21 PM

I'm not sure I understand. The elevator will group the patients automatically due to the elevator's available space, right? Maybe this was your modeling technique to achieve grouping, but what you really want is to define your groups in the patient arrival definition. This is possible too.

To create groups of patients arriving at specific times (or within a defined period), you should use the Custom Arrivals. Have you looked at that table on the arrival object? It's my favorite because it allows me define arrivals in a very flexible way. The time periods can be anything you want, and the number of arrivals within the period can be defined with a distribution as well. Let me know if you need help with this!

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