splitting an entity into two or more entities

[Marcos Barretto]

I´m building a model of a clinic, where patients arrive and they are examined in one room (a resource) by a doctor (another resource). The doctor also has to write a report, after examination. Therefore, two process (examination and writing) use concurrently a doctor. What is different from usual concurrency scenarios is that the need for a report only happens after an examination. I used gates to control the creation of new entities (representing reports to write) but it seems tricky! Is there a better way? I think it should be a kind of "disassembly block", where an entity could be split into various kinds of entities and each one routed to its process.

[Harry King]

Marcos,

As you suggest, JaamSim needs a block that creates new entities that are routed to individual processes. Arena does this with a version of the Separate block. I’ll try to build this object for you next week and get it into release 2014-32.

Harry

[Harry King]

Marcos,

I've finally got the Duplicate block programmed for you this weekend. It will be included in the next release (2014-36).

I'm sorry to have taken so much longer than I promised. A combination of travelling and jet-lag has kept me from it until now.

Harry

[Harvey Harrison]

Marcos,

JaamSim2014-36 is now available from the usual place, as Harry mentioned, the Duplicate object you requested has been included in this version.  Enjoy!

Cheers,

Harvey

[Harry King]

Marcos,

I've attached an example model that uses the Duplicate object.

By the way, we will be issuing a new version of the user manual tomorrow that includes all the latest objects such as Duplicate.

Harry

[Al Taliaferro]

Looking at the Posed Duplicate Example File, I am getting a null error whenever I add a StateAssignment to EntityConveyor3 or EntityConveyor4.

Is this a known bug? Is there a better place to report this type of information? Please advise.

(Thanks in advance.) 

[Harry King]

Al,

This is a new bug -- thanks for reporting it. The problem is that the duplicated entities are not being assigned an initial state properly. I'll try to get this fixed for the next release.

Harry 

[Harry King]

Al,

This bug has been fixed in release 2015-33.

Harry

[Marcos Pereira-Barretto]

Great!!!
Thanks!!

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[Akram Najjar]

Hi Harry

I am new to this post. Has the "disassemble" object been added to JaamSim (See your note from 2014 below)? Or any other equivalent?

Example: on return from an Operation, the medical supplies group will receive entities such as medical kits which they will separate into different stock items. I realize you can use an EntityContainer here (with Unpack) but would prefer a disassemble function.

Many thanks

Akram

[Harry King]

Akram,

The operation performed by the Assemble object cannot be reversed.

If you want to save the individual components, such as the medical supplies in your example, then you need to use an EntityContainer. Note that Match keyword added to EntityContainer and RemoverFrom in the last release (2018-05) allows you to select the entity that you want to remove.

Harry

[Akram Najjar]

Thanks Harry, will stick to the Container procedure.