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Rockwell Automation Arena Users Guide User Manual

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Patterns. (For more details, refer to the section entitled “Calendar schedule information”
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Work schedule for staff, including breaks

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Breakdown patterns for equipment

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Volume of customers arriving at a store

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Learning-curve factors for new workers

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Prompt

Description

Name

The name of the schedule being defined. This name must be unique.

Format Type

Format of schedule being defined. If format is duration, the schedule is
defined with a collection of value duration pairs. If format is calendar,
the schedule is defined using the Time Pattern editor.

Type

Type of schedule being defined. This may be Capacity related (for
resource schedules), Arrival related (for the Create module), or Other
(miscellaneous time delays or factors).

Time Units

Time units used for the time-duration information.

Scale Factor

Method of scaling the schedule for increases or decreases in
Arrival/Other values. The specified Value fields will be multiplied by
the scale factor to determine the new values. Not available for Capacity-
type schedules.

Durations

Lists the value and duration pairs for the schedule. Values can be
capacity, arrival, or other type values, while the duration is specified in
time units. Schedule pairs will repeat after all durations have been
completed, unless the last duration is left blank (infinite). Schedule data
can be entered graphically using the graphical schedule editor or
manually using the Value/Duration fields.

Value

Represents either the capacity of a resource (if Type is Capacity), arrival
rate (if Type is Arrival), or some other value (if Type is Other).
Examples of Other may be a factor that is used in a delay expression to
scale a delay time during various parts of the day.

Duration

Time duration for which a specified Value will be valid.