Assigning Arrivals to the Arrival Cycle

After an arrival cycle has been defined, assign an arrival record to the arrival cycle in the Arrivals edit table for the arriving customers. The arrival record for the bank example appears below. See Arrivals for more information.)

The total number of customers per day is normally distributed with a mean of 1000 and a standard deviation of 35. The number of occurrences of the cycle is 20, representing 20 working days (1 month) of time. The frequency in this case refers to the period of the cycle or the time between the start of one cycle and the start of the next cycle, which is every 24 hours. Make sure the arrival frequency is defined with the same time unit as the arrival cycle.

Without an arrival cycle, all the Customers for a single day would arrive at the start of the simulation. An arrival cycle will divide the quantity specified in the Qty each... field into various sized groups arriving throughout the day.

To assign the arrival cycle to the arrival record, click on the Qty each... heading button to open a dialog with the names of all defined cycles.

Click on the entry Bank_Arrivals and select OK. The Qty each... field now includes the cycle.