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Thank you dsturrock, your solution helped me a lot! But I have another question. I think it might be an easy one again. As I told you, I use different kind of entities, which enter the model with a certain probability written down in the rate tables. I now want to make a simulation run with excately 10000 Entities (altogether). The "Run" Ribbon does not offer that setting and the soruce itself has a field which says maximum arrivals. But when I type in 10000 at the maximum arrivals field, only around 8500 will in fact enter the model! Do you know why this is, or where I have to change the settings? The problem seems to be very ordinary and common. Maybe I think too complicated! Thanks for your help once again.

In real life it is a Failure, but I want to show that there is a difference at what time the failure occurs (7am-9am is worse than 9am-11am). So basically I need a scheduled Downtime. How do you make the first Delay? It seems that my "Failure" still starts at different times, even though the length of the Failure is correct. Is it possible to post another simple example like you did with the Combiner? That helped me a lot! Thank you for your support! Tom

So what I want to do: I want to make a one year Business Process Simulation. Every Day between a certain time (7am-9am) one part (an IT-System) of the whole process, represented by a single Server, must not work for around 10 minutes. I cant figure out how to tell Simio to Fail every day, at the same time. Is it possible to make it with a Fail-Schedule or something like that? Sorry if my previous question wasn't clear enough, but english is not my mother tongue. Thanks for helping, Thomas

Hmmm, I have read through the Simbits. But couldnt find the solution to my problem. What do you mean by "the monitor element"? Or what does it do and where can I find it? If I want to stop the server for a couple of minutes every day during the same time of the day, do I even have to use the Failure Type or do I have to do it with Add on process triggers and some work arounds? Maybe Off-Shift? Thanks again, Thomas

Hello Simio Community! In my current project I want to show how Failures affect a business process, when they occur at a certain time during the day. My problem is that I don't understand how to invoke these Failures let's say between 7.00 and 9.00am every day. When I try the Event based Failure item there is not possibility for changing the settings of an event. Plus I don't know how the calendar based Failure system works. Does anyone have experience with that kind of Failure-Setting? Thanks, Thomas