I'm building a model that has a long processing time and requires more than one shift to finish processing. I want the staff member to keep working on the process until a new staff comes over to relieve them.
If I use "stop and reacquire similar resource", the staff member will leave as soon as their shift ends instead of waiting for their replacement. How do I change this?
What a great question. I also ran into this issue lately and built this sample model.
Under the "On Preempt" trigger on my processing time, I told Process Flow to create a new token in a separate flow off to the side. This flow ("On Preempt" in the model below) will acquire a new staff member and bring them over to the station. It will then have them complete the remaining processing time. If they can't complete it on their shift, the On Preempt logic will repeat and get another operator.
I used another process flow area to direct my operators shift schedule. Here, I used an event triggered source to create a token whenever an operators shift ends. If they were currently working on something, I told them to wait there until a new staff member arrived. Then, they could walk to the off-shift area and stay there until their next shift starts.
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