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Animate Path Density

2. Changing Queues When Server Fails
3. Checking Next Entity Ahead On Link
4. Choose Alternate Sequence
5. Create Discrete Entities Based On Flow (from project
Flow Concepts)
6. Disable Failure Timers
7. Discrete Lookup Table
8. Filling Emptying Tank (from project Flow Concepts)
9. Financials
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Find A Minimum State Value

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Hourly Statistic

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Keep Queue Time For Last10 Entities

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Merging Conveyors Controlled By Gate

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Multiple Input Arguments On Processes

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Notify Step

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Pick Up Drop Off Flow

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Resource States When Off Shift

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Rotating Vehicle Example

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Search Station Element

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Sequential Processing By Batch Specified In Table

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Simple Tank

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Single Worker Completes Process And Moves To
Node
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Transfer Into Free Space Use Travel Step (from
project Free Space Movement)

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Transfer Line

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Transferring From One Tank To Another (from
project Flow Concepts)
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Using A Monitor

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Using A Storage Queue

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Animate Path Density

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Animated People

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Simple Elevator Object

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Appointment Arrivals

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Disable Failure Timers

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Leveled Arrivals

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Random Value From Table

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Scheduled Material Arrivals With Deviation

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Search Tables

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Source With Custom Entity Type Property

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Source With Rate Table

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Using Buttons To Affect System

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Add And Remove Server Capacity

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CONWIP

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Hourly Statistic

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Keep Queue Time For Last10 Entities

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Notify Step

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One Queue For Multiple Servers

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Overflow WIP

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Simple Least Slack Selection Rule

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User Defined List State

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Communication Between Objects

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Facility Model Within Model

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Hourly Statistic

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Mass Flow Processing

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Moveable Operator

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Process Model Within Model

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Search Table (from project Hierarchy With Tables)

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Search Table Upon Entering Object As Submodel

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Source With Custom Entity Type Property

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Top Level Model (from project Hierarchy With
Tables)
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Update State In Model From Object

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Vehicle Visits Service Center

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Visit All Servers In Any Order

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Workers Arrive Late To Shift

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Simple Elevator Object

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Combine Matching Members

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Combine Then Separate

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Reference Batched Entity

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Regenerating Combiner

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Search Station Element

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Separator Makes Copies

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Using A Storage Queue

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Using Flow Objects (from project Infection
Propagation Using Continuous And Flow)
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Using Level States (from project Infection
Propagation Using Continuous And Flow)
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Entities Entering Along Conveyor

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Examples Of Conveyors

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Merging Conveyors Controlled By Gate

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Sorting Conveyor System

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Transfer Line

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Dashboard Report Interactive Logs

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Dashboard Report Tallies

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Hourly Statistic

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Keep Queue Time For Last10 Entities

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Record Distance Traveled

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Tally Statistics In Tables

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User Defined List State

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Using A Monitor

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Workers Arrive Late To Shift

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Dashboard Report Interactive Logs

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Dashboard Report Tallies

Problem:
You have a palletizer or similar machine but you do not know the exact
timing of when to have pallets arrive.
Categories:
Combining and Separating Entities
Key Concepts:
BatchMembers Queue, Combiner, On Event Arrival Mode, ParentInputBuffer,
Source

Assumptions:
We want to have a supply of three pallets. waiting so the process will rarely
be delayed by lack of pallets.
Technical Approach:
Use the standard features of a Source object to create one new pallet each
time one is consumed. Use the Initial Number Entities property on the
Source when On Event is used to generate initial entities (must be at least
1, we used 3).
Details for Building the Model:
Simple System Setup

Place two ModelEntity objects from the Project Library and two
Sources, one Combiner, and one Sink from the Standard Library in the
Facility window of a new model. Connect Source1 to the
ParentInput@Combiner1 with a Conveyor. Connect Source2 to the
MemberInput@Combiner1 with a path. Connect Combiner1 to the
Sink with a Path.
Change the Name of the one of the ModelEntity instances to Pallet
and the other to Part.

Creating the Pallets

Within Source1, change the Entity Type to Pallet. Specify Arrival

Mode of On Event. For Event Name, choose
Output@Combiner1.Exited.
On Source1, specify the number of Initial Number Entities as 3. This
will generate pallets to start the simulation.

Creating the Parts and Combining Them onto Pallets

Within Source2, change the Entity Type to Part. Set the Time Offset
to .5 minutes so that the parts arrive after the initial pallets.
Within Combiner1, specify the Batch Quantity as 7. This will combine
7 parts onto a single pallet for later processing. Change the
Processing Time property to Random.Exponential(1) and the Parent
Input Buffer to 1. This will cause the other pallets to wait on the
conveyor.

Discussion:
Combiner1 automatically fires an event every time a parent entity exits the
Combiner object. Source1 will wait for that event and create a new entity
each time it occurs, effectively replacing the pallet that was just consumed.
Embellishment:
We added an Attach Queue to the Pallet entity symbol and associated it with
the Queue State named Pallet.BAtchMembers. This will display the
members in any batch associated with the Pallet, or in this case, after the
Pallet picks up entities in the Combiner, they will appear on the pallet.