Every Monday and Wednesday, 5000 engine blocks are delivered to a company at 08:00:00.
The start time for the shift calendar is set to Wednesday 01/02/08 at 08:00:00.
Prerequisite
You have already created a Schedule model having two calendar events for goods deliveries on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Procedure
Definition of the goods delivery for Wednesdays
Right-click the calendar event you have named 'Wednesday goods delivery'.
Click Process instantiation. The corresponding dialog opens. Enter the date 01/02/08 and 08:00:00 as the start time.
Select For and specify 0000:00:00:00.
Enable Recurring event.
Set the frequency to Weekly.
Set the interval to 1.
Specify 5000 as the number of process instantiations.
Click OK.
The details of the recurrence for the Wednesday goods delivery have been saved.
Definition of the goods delivery for Mondays
Right-click the calendar event you have named 'Monday goods delivery'.
Click Process instantiation. The corresponding dialog opens. Enter the date 01/07/08 and 06:00:00 as the start time.
Select For and specify 0000:00:00:00.
Enable Recurring event.
Set the frequency to Weekly.
Set the interval to 1.
Specify 5000 as the number of process instantiations.
Click OK.
The details of the recurrence for the Monday goods delivery have been saved.
You can now assign the model to start objects so that the process instantiation is triggered on the basis of this schedule during the simulation.