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How do I add Shifts & Breaks for Resources?
In situations where one or more resources are available during different shifts or time periods, it may be useful to reflect...
How do I add Consumable Resources?
Modeling consumable resources such as money, energy, water, etc. Useful for modeling the consumption and replenishment of a resource. Suggested...
How do I Simulate Resource Sharing?
Sharing resources between two or more activities. Useful when a resource may be used at more than one activity. Suggested Technique...
How do I add Availability to a Resource?
Taking into account the employee’s additional duties, not defined in the model, using resource availability. Useful when an employee is not...
How do I Simulate Stock Replenishment?
A new order is placed when the input queue of an activity, or the contents of a storage, falls to the...
How do I Produce Entities on Demand?
Producing additional items when an in-process or finished goods storage has been depleted to a certain level. Useful for producing on...
How do I Initialize Storage & Queue Contents?
Having an initial quantity or inventory of entities at a storage area or queue when the simulation begins. Suggested Technique Connect...
How do I determine Inventory Levels?
Having an activity check the current number of entities on-hand at a particular storage area. Useful for making decisions based on...
How do I pull Last In/First Out (LIFO) from a Queue?
The last entity to enter the storage is the first to exit or leave. Thus entities entering 1, 2, 3 exit...
How do I Pull Highest Priority Entities First from a Queue?
Pull entities out of a queue based on a priority by using a real or contrived resource as the enabler to...
How do I Tracking Entity Conditions?
Counting the total number of entities meeting a special condition. Suggested Technique Determine the condition or attribute to be counted....
How do I Track Activity Contents?
Tracking the time-weighted average number of entities occupying a stage in the process that consists of more than a single...
How do I Track Time Spent?
Tracking the length of time spent in a particular stage of a process. Suggested Technique Define an attribute of type...
How do I Track Times Against a Standard?
Counting the number of times that an activity or other time consuming events fell within a particular range. Suggested Technique Create...
How do I Track Resource Use?
Tracking the number of times a particular resource is used for a particular activity or set of activities. Suggested Technique Create...