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Concurrent Processes

maryamh11 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:59:49 GMT

[ FlexSim 21.1.4 ]

Hi,

How I can create two concurrent processes in the same activity set each of which has different processing times. To explain more, I have an exam room process in which the processing time follows a triangular distribution. It contains three activities A, B, and C, and each of these activities have specific and fixed processing times. I want to make just activity B ( with X minutes of processing times) concurrent with the whole exam room process. How it could be possible?

Thanks!

Re: Concurrent Processes

joerg_vogel_HsH — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 22:34:14 GMT

Your constant process time (B) must be fitting into the triangular distributed time. It is a maximum of two values

Math.max(const. time B, triangular distribution)

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/21.2/Reference/CodingInFlexSim/FlexScriptAPIReference/Data/Math.html#Method-max

Re: Concurrent Processes

maryamh11 — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:35:56 GMT

@Joerg Vogel My question is how I can create two concurrent processes in the same activity set.

Re: Concurrent Processes

eric_m3 — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:14:39 GMT

Would using Split and Join activities do what you're wanting? That way you could send the split tokens through different delays at the same time.

Re: Concurrent Processes

maryamh11 — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 00:40:29 GMT

Seems a good idea! I'll try that. Thanks!