farnaz Posted June 6, 2017 Posted June 6, 2017 (edited) Hi, In my model, one of the servers has working shift from 10am to 10pm. I would like the server works 1 more hour (from 10pm-11pm) if there is an entity in the server inputbuffer queue. Could you please give me a hint how to check the server inputbuffer queue for a specific time (10pm-11pm every day)? Also, I would like to have the detail results of my model for each entity based on the time for each server or node in excel because I run the model for a long time. Could you please let me know is there any option in SIMIO to provide the detail information in excel? I really appreciate if anyone can help me. Edited June 20, 2018 by Guest
luizfvpereira Posted June 7, 2017 Posted June 7, 2017 Hi farnaz, in fact, you should be checking your buffer at the beginning of the period 10-11. If all machines stop at 10, entities will stop flowing shortly after. Therefore you could check around 10:05 or somewhere around the beginning of the period. To do so, you can use a timer (Definitions>Elements>Timer) and set it to occur every 24h with an offset of 20h05m (10:05PM)). Then, have a process being triggered by that timer. In that process you would check if the input buffer was empty or not (Server.InputBuffer.Contents==0). You can do that using a Decide step. If the condition is false (there is something in the buffer) change the resource state + Capacity of the server so that it processes said entity. For it to work for another hour you could set another timer or use a paralell process with a delay of 55min. At the end of that time you would turn off the server again. Hope this helps (I haven't tested it to be sure it works)
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