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Repeating Each Arrival In Schedule Source

roald_w — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:54:30 GMT

[ FlexSim 23.0.10 ]

Good day, I trust you are well 🙂

I am wondering if there is a way to repeat the arrival of each arrival from the scheduled source. Instead of repeating the whole schedule before line 1 gets repeated can I repeat line one for example every 357120 seconds instead of it waiting for the whole schedule to finish? Therefore line 2 will also repeat every 366904 seconds and remain independent from other arrivals.

I understand this can be achieved by separate sources, but I don't wish to create a 74 sources or do 74 time by case.

Any help is appreciated!

Re: Repeating Each Arrival In Schedule Source

Matthew_Gillespie — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:34:23 GMT

The Scheduled Source activity can't do this by itself. But you could use a simple loop with a Delay activity to create repeating arrivals.

RepeatingArrivals.fsm

For example, in this model I moved the arrival time column to a new Interval label column and set all the arrival times to 0.

I then have those tokens wait in the delay for token.Interval seconds before creating an item. The token then loops back to the delay activity to begin delaying again.

Re: Repeating Each Arrival In Schedule Source

roald_w — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 05:35:04 GMT

Thank you!