I'm doing a simulation of an industry in Anylogic. It consists of three equal production lines, they all have the same number of processes (in the case services) and each service has a Resource attached (aka. a Machine). The products that are produced in the three lines will only be joined together in the end (at the final stock before delivery). However, my last process of each line can have an increase or decrease in resources (machines) when needed. For example, line 1 had a machine failure and stopped for some time and now instead of needing 4 machines to complete the order it will need 6. In addition, if one of this machines placed in this process breaks (because of a failure), I need the service to keep working but with less resources. So, for example, I have 4 machines in the last process of line 1, one of these machines had a break down, I would like the other 3 to keep producing. Which possible solution can be used for this? I tried to simulate this in the service itself but it doesn't work with less resources then specified.
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From what I understood I think you need to model the three lines separately and use three different resourcePools for your machines. Doing this you will have control over the resource capacity on every line and can change them based on any events. If your question is about how to change capacity of one line when another line fails, I suggest using the "send to flowchart" option in resource failure and you can use flowchart blocks to change capacities and execute any other code necessary.
If your 3 lines are identical, you can create a custom flowchart block and pass the resourcePool as a parameter to the custom block.This way you don't have to replicate your logic three times.
