One Time Arrivals (see also Defining Initialization Logic)

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One Time Arrivals (see also Defining Initialization Logic)

A single entity or entity batch arrives just once during the simulation, perhaps at the beginning or at some specified time into the simulation.

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Solution

In the Arrival properties dialog select Periodic as the arrival type.
Enter a 1 in the Occurrences field.
Ignore the Interval field.
Enter the desired batch size in the Quantity Per Arrival field.
Enter the desired time of arrival in the Start Time field.

Example

An assembly line has 200 containers that are to be modeled as entities since they get routed and stored much like entities. These containers start out in a Container Storage buffer.