How to combine two successive SimEvents entities?

I'm trying to model a manufacturing process that creates new entities on a specific cycle. For one step in the process I need to fill a basket with two entities before allowing the basket to leave the process. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to accomplish this task?

Answer 1

[Rick Rosson]

Operations Research Library

[Tony]

Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for.

[Tony]

Rick, Do happen to have an idea of how to accumulate attributes associated with the collected entities that make up the batch? I've tried to use the following Matlab function script:

function y=fnc(u)
persistent accum
persistent n
if n==0
accum=0;
end
if n< Q %Q is the batch size
accum=accum+u;
n=n+1
else
accum=accum+u;
n=0;
end
y=accum;