Hello,
I'm trying to compare some supply chain how to cope with an increase in demand (with discrete simulation and the
entreprise library).
How can I change the working hours of a workstation/delay/conveyor from 8 hours a day with a normal demand, to 12 hours
a day when the demand increases?
Thanks,
Ruud Smetsers
Pavel — 13.08.10
Hi Ruud,
You can use statecharts to define when the workstation should work, i.e.accept entities. The flow of entities can be
stopped by "Hold" block. So you should create statechart with two states - one state will call
"hold.setBlocked(true)" and another state - "hold.setBlocked(false)". The
transitions from one state to another should have specific timeouts that will define the operation time.
Ruud — 16.08.10
Hello Pavel,
Thanks for the advice! I'll try to fit them into my model.