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Hello,


I quite new to simulation and I need I have data on an arrival pattern that looks like this:

Time range Amount of arrivals
8:00-8:59 90
9:00-9:59 106
ect...

I need to spread randomly the arrivals during each time range.

How do I do this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi,

You can model such an arrival pattern using the atom Arrivallist (you'll find it in the category Time).

Afterwards you could use a multiservice atom with a high capacity and a cycletime of uniform(0, hr(1)) to spread the arrivals of the products random over the hour.

Regards, Marlies

Thanks a lot!

Works like a charm!
Is it possible to link the data in Arrival List to an input Excel?

Many thanks !

Hi,

It's not possible to link the arrivallist directly to Excel, but it could be done like this:

- Use the ExcelActiveX atom to link to Excel and add a table for the arrivalpattern.
- Assume you have an arrival pattern per hour: give the arrivallist atom a repeat time (first tab) of 1 hour.
- Then give the arrivallist just 1 arrival. The quantity of this arrival reads the number from the table in your excel active x atom.
- The code in the quantity field could look like this:
Where refPassengers could be the name of your table.

Regards, Marlies