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by peter26
Fri May 12, 2006 10:43 am
Forum: Vensim
Topic: Delay question
Replies: 23
Views: 15916

Originally posted by bob@vensim.com Now ignore all of this. For the problem you want to work on you absolutely do not want to use a delay profile. You have described two stage flow process that has a quick outflow followed by a small percentage going into a longer process. You need to explicitly mo...
by peter26
Fri May 12, 2006 8:49 am
Forum: Vensim
Topic: Delay question
Replies: 23
Views: 15916

Maybe its usefull to say something more about my real problem. We are trying to modelate a proces for the dutch police which calculates work-stocks. For example 100.000 cases come in. In the first week (week 0) 98,9% cases are beeing processed, the 1,1% left are cases which need to be judged. The ju...
by peter26
Fri May 12, 2006 8:35 am
Forum: Vensim
Topic: Delay question
Replies: 23
Views: 15916

I dont understand why my average delay is 2.55 weeks. Maybe its a stupid question but how did you calculate that number?

[Edited on 5-12-2006 by peter26]
by peter26
Thu May 11, 2006 1:28 pm
Forum: Vensim
Topic: Delay question
Replies: 23
Views: 15916

Originally posted by bob@vensim.com The simplest delays are SMOOTH and DELAY3 - however if you really want your percentage breakdown you will need to use DELAY PROFILE. Generally a better solution is just to use outflow = MIN(capacity,in process/min processing time) in process = INTEG(inflow - outf...
by peter26
Wed May 10, 2006 12:02 pm
Forum: Vensim
Topic: Delay question
Replies: 23
Views: 15916

Delay question

Hi guys, I'm new on this forum and also new in using Vensim so i hope you can help me out with this. I will try to explain my problem as best as possible. If you got stock with a flow in and out. For example cookies. It takes 5 weeks to get all 100 cookies out. But they dont go out all at once but d...