Setup Tab

The Setup tab is used to model situations where an activity can process different types of entities, but needs setup or change over time to do so. The setup time is used only when an entity routes to the activity and is different from the previous entity to route to the activity.

Setups can only be defined for single capacity activities.

Entity The name of the entity that will trigger the setup time when it routes to the activity. The keyword “ALL” will incur the setup time for every different entity to route to the activity.
Time The amount of time the activity will use to setup for the entity. When this time is complete, then processing on the entity will commence.
Resource Optionally, select a resource required to perform the setup.
Priority If you have chosen a resource to perform the setup, you may optionally choose a priority for the resource. When the entity enters the activity, the activity will attempt to get the resource for the setup using this priority. If the priority is set to Interrupt, the resource will be preempted from the work it is performing to perform the setup at this activity.
Disable Check this box to disable the setup during simulation. This is useful for ignoring the setup without deleting it from the list.