Change in source :Agents per arrival and Maximum number of arrival at runtime

Question

I am modeling a manufacturing system. The case is that I would like to implement a ramp-up model so the Agents per arrival and Maximum number of arrival change at a specific time during the simulation. I tried to implement this by using an event but then I am not able to actually change the values of the source.

Answer 1

Change your source arrivals to be defined by calls of inject() funtion.

Use a cyclic event with a reccurence time of 1. That will reflect your interarrival time.

Then use an if statement to control your maximum arrivals.

if (source.count() < maxArrivals) {

  source.inject(agentsPerArrival);

}