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I am using arrival table to create my entities inside my simulation. So I am importing a column indicating the arrival time of all my entities; inside my data I also have property associated with each entity (exam type in an ultrasound clinic). I want to use that column as well and attache the associated property to each entity created. I am not sure how to do that. Also I want to use that property in another table and assign processing time distributions for each property (maybe defining the column as a key might help but I am not sure ). I appreciate any help.

Hello, I have a model that uses an arrival table to define the sequence to create my entities. In the same table I have the processing times for my servers . I don't know why but seems that my model is simply ignoring my table, entities creation sequence and processing times are not using data from the table. I have tried a lot of things but could not find what is wrong. I hope someone here can help me. Attached is my model. Thanks for the support. Model_2_heads.spfx

Hi everyone, I've tried and checked the manual, it seems we cannot get access to the values in rate tables? Basically what I want to do is to do some planning ahead of time by reading and summing the rate data in it. Is the only solution to keep a same regular data table synchronized with the rate tables? The reason of using Rate Table is because it has a build-in function of calculating delay times regarding different rate zones, which is more realistic.

Good night, It's my first post here, and I want to say at first very thanks for the help, I'm going to explain a little the issue: I'm making my own simulation about a supermarket, and I'm trying to generate a list of things which had to be assigned to a Entity. I generated a string property as vector with 4 rows (ArticuloQueCompra), and I sent from a table (Listadelacompra). I also had made the same with another property (CantidadArticulo). After, I sent the values throw a trigger (AsignacionManualDatos). I thought it isn't the best way for this but I didn't find the right. I appreciate the time you spend for help, so, thanks again. Regards,

Hi, I would like to model the following. Having information stored in every entity instance containing the information to a set of tasks that can be performed to that entity and, whether they have been performed. I have created a model. There is a set of entities that will enter the model. This is stores in a table (allEntities). Some tasks can be done to entities. This is in another table (allTasks). Every single entity will have several tasks associated among all possible tasks. This is in a third table (infoEntities). When an entity enters the model, I would like each of them to have that information and, as those tasks are done, keep some record that they have been done. I have created a repeat group property within the ModelEntity object to grasp info from infoEntities table and the make use of it. But I have not been able to make it work. Could you provide me with some hints to progress? A model and a document with images is attached. Many thanks. description.pdf model.spfx

Hi I was trying to add up this column values. It is always showing 3.9999999 instead of 4. I was checking in many ways, and I found it is only the 8th row which gives me 0.2999999 instead of 0.3 . But if I put any other value instead 0.3 the summation is working . Only 0.3 value and it is only for the row number 8 I get this error value. However if I check the trace it has no problem. If I check it by a status level in the facility view it actually shows the values is 0.29999 . I changed my Simio version, nut still It is not working. I can't say my process is wrong as it works for any other value except 0.3. Pls note that 0.3 value for any other row is working fine. what could be the reason. Any suggestion will be much appreciated regards Sazzad

If what you are looking for is to define a specific row in a table you might check the SET ROW step. Rds.

Hi guys. I attached a sample of the problem Im facing in my project. In my main model I have a table that has a column of the type date and my entities have to be created, on a submodel, on the times specified on the table that has the column of the type date. I was able to reference the table on the main model to the submodel and thus pass the values. However, on the create object of the submodel I was not able to set/reference the property for the ArrivalTimeProperty property of the Source. Can somebody help me please? Thanks. Model.spfx

Hi! Is there an immediate way to get the row number of a table without looping through all the rows? Thanks

Sry i said it should be 100 each day, that was just a mean which i dont want to use. I would like the rate table to make 100 day one, 98 day two and 102 day tree, and a mean cant be used, cause i need to model the reality in the process. And as mentioned before, should the source make all the entities from the table at ones (when the workday starts).

Is there a reason you're using a Rate Table instead of the good ol' Interarrival Time?

I've been having issues with binding Excel files (XLSX and CSV format) into SIMIO. Every time I try to bind a file with SIMIO I get the same message of "Data has not been imported or is of an unknown age." Even when I create a table in SIMIO, save to CSV, and then try to reimport the exact same table by creating a CSV binding I get the same error. For further context I am using the Academic RPS version of SIMIO. All online tutorials I can find are using older/ different versions of SIMIO that don't have the same options as I do. Does anyone else have experience with this issue or is able to share some advice to help me get pass this error? Thank you

I want to be able to schedule events for the future without having to define a separate timer for each possible time this will happen. Ideally i'd like to be able to index into a vector of timers to start one, so it can be dependent on a state variable. One use of these would be recurring tasks, for instance, while a patient is in post-surgery, they will be administered medicine every r hours. This is dependent on them exiting surgery (it doesn't begin at a specific time), so a rate table doesn't really work, and that would run into a similar problem of having to define different rate tables for each patient type and recurring tasks (potentially hundreds). Any ideas?

Thanks, Jason for your answer and your interest. The situation is the following: I have to receive an order with set amount of entities that must be completed in a specific date and hour, but I need to distribute that order in some intervals before the deadline. It means, If I have an order with 15 entities for November 3 at 8 pm, I could receive 10% of the entities at 7 pm, 50% at 7:30 pm and 40% at 8 pm. So, I have the idea to do an arrival table for the schedule of the order and a rate table for the percentages that I need. And I want to know that is possible in SIMIO to put both in the source? Thanks for your help!

Hi All, Is there a way to assign Table Assignments on Entity Created like is via the properties panel but via process logic? I am still working on learning process logic. Essentially I have different product tables to use data from during different part of the day, so I am trying to have a decide step that say "what time is it when the entity is created" and then assign the right table and subsequent random.row values from that table to the entity. All help appreciated! Thanks! David

Hello, Is there any way that I can use data that I have pulled into Simio from Excel to be used as processing times for a server?

Hi, It's the first time I'm working with the flow library. My question relates to configuring a flow of two liquids that come from a single source, but may be of two kinds (different densities). I would like to have one table, describing the properties of the entities, and another table, having one field as a model type, and another one as the weight limit in the flow sequence. So, basically Table1: --Entity--- ---Density (kg/cubic meter)--- ... some other props TypeA 5000 TypeB 10000 Table2: RowNumber (not a field, just for sequence) --Entity--- ---Amount (cubic meters)--- 1 TypeA 10000 2 TypeA 20000 3 TypeB 30000 4 TypeB 25000 5 TypeA 10000 6 TypeB 12000 7 TypeB 10000 I need to make pauses between the sequential flows of different (or the same) liquids, in the order presented in 2nd table, but I believe, I'll figure out how to achieve this. The question is - how do I configure the source? I need to reference both tables, since I need to limit certain values by weight in the source, but have input in volume. I also have some other entity properties that I would need to access further in the simulation. They are in Table1, which is the descriptive table, not the one used for initializing the flow source. What I tried to do - is 1. Specified the entity type as a referenced property from the Initialization table (Table2) 2. I created the RunInitialized trigger for the flow source to SetRow to number 1 (I will further increment the rownumber - if there is a better solution, please advise) 3. I tried to limit MaximumVolume by accessing another table - and here I'm stuck. I need to lookup Table1, but not by id (integer), but by the entity type. So, the lookup table seems not to fit here. Please advise of this design, how do I lookup in a Table1, when I have an entity of known type.

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I have a input table binded to an external Excel table. However, I realized that the table values are not updated when I run scenarios in the experimental mode, eventhough the binding option for the data table is set to "Automatically update". Do you have any suggestions? Thanks

You might want to look into Arrival Tables. See the following screen grabs. Configure the source to create entities based on the arrival table as follows: Setup the arrival table to define the arrival time and the number of entities per arrival as follows: Hope this helps, Lucas.

Hi everyone! In my simulation model I created a sub-model and placed many on its facility. On the main model I have a table that only has 1 object column and I want to pass the table to the sub-model as a property. I've done this many times with processes: I create a process property on the object and on the main model I pass the process through its properties. However I can't do this with table property: *On the main model Simio accepts the name of the table I write -> Ok *On the sub-model at Controls I write the name of the table property and Simio returns an error... Why is this? Please, some help.. Thanks.

I would like to refer to a specific row in a date table for a specific property. I found the syntax for this as TableName[RowNumber].PropertyName. However, I want to use a model entity state variable that returns an integer for the row number. The model gives an error saying "invalid syntax". A model state variable works fine, but I can't use a modelentity variable. (TableName[ModelEntity.StateName].PropertyName). Are there any suggestions to solve this issue? Thank you.

I have a source, called forklift source, that has a varying interarrival time based on the time of day. To do this, I created a time indexed table with the different interarrival times in different rows and the interval period set to one hour. This source also depends on the interarrival time of another source called Newtrucksource, but not on an hourly basis. I am trying to conduct an experiment where the interarrival time of newtrucksource changes with different experiments and a different time indexed interarrival table for source 1 is used for each of these different interarrival times. To do this, I created a real property for newtrucksource's interarrival time and a table property for forkliftsource's time indexed interarrival table. However, I can't get this to work because in the model, the interarrival time property for the forkliftsource must be a "number" and I am referencing a table which comes up as using "string". Trying to find a way to make this work.

Hi bennodual You can create a table inside your customised object(say MyObject) and the column type match your properties, ie,he first of type datetime and the second of type real. and then convert it to a repeatgroup ,for example its name : tableA and on parent model you can instantiate your object and on the property panel, you will see the repeatgroup to assign. you can create a table directly via the schema dropdown list with the name MyObject, select MyObject.tableA and the table will be automatically created. the next step is refer to this table on the properties panel.