How can workstation choose entities on priority basis

[CSteinlicht]

How can I set up a workstation to choose entiites on basis of color. My workstation is getting inputs from 5 different Sources that produce a different color. Each color represents a priority level. Later on I want to calculate the individual process time of each colored entities in experiment.

Santosh

[JBeltran]

By "choose entiites on basis of color" do you mean that your workstation process times are different based on the "type" (color, a sting variable) of the entity being processed?


If affirmative, you could use a Math.If expression to determine process times for a short number of cases, or a table if you think that the number of different types ( = colors) of entities could be high.

There are some Simbits that could be useful to illustrate this case, you may want to have a look at the one called "Discrete lookup table" .

[dsturrock]

You might also look at the SimBit WorkstationWithSequenceDependentSetup that does something similar to your request.

If your color simply illustrates a priority, then you should probably just use the internal ModelEntity.Priority state as it was intended and perhaps just set the entity's Current Symbol Index to ModelEntity.Priority.