Lambda Function Help - Iteration

[evan stocker]

Hi, I am a new user to JaamSim and am attempting my first model to help in a facility layout at my company. I have previous experience in Arena so the learning curve hasn't been too steep so far. The main entities in my model are Lots, which have the attribute Lot Size.

I would like to write a lambda function which samples a normal distribution once for each part in the Lot to generate Service Times for a given process. To do this, I am thinking of using a for loop, but I don't see anything in the documentation about this. Is this possible?

Here is the non-working code I have so far:

|Qty,ServiceTime|(

for i in Qty {

ServiceTime = ServiceTime + [NormalDistribution2].Value

 }

)(this.obj.LotQty,0)

Another general question, can I write functions that will be used elsewhere in my mode, or am I limited to lambda functions?

Any help here would be much appreciated,

[evan stocker]

Looks like I answered my own question.

I'll post it in case anyone else had a similar question:

'sum(map(|x|([NormalDistribution2].Value),range(this.obj.LotQty)))'

[Harry King]

The following lambda function is another possibility:

'reduce(|x, accum|([NormalDistribution2].Value + accum), 0[s], range(this.obj.LotQty))'

It is a bit more efficient because it does not create the intermediate array of service times. Note that NormalDistribution2 must return a value with the units of TimeUnit.

Harry