When Will You Need This? When there is both and Inbound and outbound inspection of tractor trailers, and to tie into other port simulation model objects. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control \ Truck In and Out Gate. Ease of Use: Moderate Ease of Modification: [...]
When Will You Need This? When you're in a situation where you have entities (Ex: Aircraft or a truck), that you want to stay at a process (Loading/Off-loading dock) until the entities created (Ex: Pallets/Goods) are offloaded from it. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control [...]
When Will You Need This? When you need to transfer large volumes of liquid, or when using very large quantities and it would be impractical to use entities, or when loading tanker rail cars. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control \ Tank to Rail Car. [...]
When Will You Need This? When you need to control the specific number and sequence of each entity type to be processed at a single activity. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control \ Specific Quantities in Sequence. Ease of Use: Easy Ease of Modification: Moderate [...]
When Will You Need This? When you need to create a car/luggage inspection simulation for point of entrance to a building/compound. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control \ Security Car Parallel Inspection. Ease of Use: Moderate Ease of Modification: Moderate How to Use the Model [...]
When Will You Need This? When you need to change the capacity of a process multiple times during a simulation run. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control \ Dynamically Change Activity Capacity. Ease of Use: Easy Ease of Modification: Moderate How to Use the Model [...]
When Will You Need This? If you want to hold entities until a certain condition is true, then release them all simultaneously, rather than release one at a time. This is done -without- creating a batch. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control \ Release All [...]
When Will You Need This? When special logic is required during a downtime, and you need Cycle Triggered and Time Triggered downtimes and when setups occur when switching from one part type to another. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control \ Downtime with Setup. Ease [...]
When Will You Need This? When you need to pull items from a queue by priority and hold items in the queue until capacity of a group of activities is available. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control \ Pull by Priority - Wait for Area [...]
When Will You Need This? When you need to pull an entity by priority declared and time it by its type. Model Object The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Flow Control \ Pull by Priority - Timed by Type. Ease of Use: Moderate Ease of Modification: Moderate How to [...]