Rockwell Automation Arena Basic Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 21)

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5. In the Resource Name field of the Resource dialog box, type Mortgage Review
Clerk.
6. Click OK to close the Resource dialog box.
7. Define the process delay parameters in the Minimum, Value (Most Likely), and
Maximum fields as 1, 1.75, and 3. (Note that the default delay type is Triangular and
the default time units are in hours.)
8. Click OK to close the dialog box.
For now, we’ll leave the default values for the other Process module properties. Feel
free to explore their purposes through online help or the Modeling Concepts and
Resources models in the SMARTs library.
Complete? (Decide module)
After the mortgage application has been reviewed, we determine whether to accept or
return the application. In Arena, whenever an entity selects among branches in the process
logic, taking just one of the alternatives, a Decide module is used.
For the mortgage application process, we’ll use a simple probability to determine the
outcome of the decision, with 88% of applications accepted as complete.
1. Double-click the Decide module to open its property dialog box.
2. In the Name field, type Complete?.
When you use a
2-way Decide
module, the entity
that enters the
module leaves via
one of the two exit
points. If you want to
make copies of an
entity to model
parallel processes,
use a Separate
module.