When Will You Need This?

When you want to sequentially vary the order in which resources are gotten. This will more evenly distribute the utilization of each resource, particularly when using boolean expressions to select from multiple possible resources

Alternate Resource Get Order model image

Model Object

The following model object can be found in the model objects directory: Utilization \ Alternate Resource Get Order.

Ease of Use: Moderate

Ease of Modification: Moderate

How to Use the Model Object

1. Open Your Model

Open your model or create a new blank model.

2. Insert the Model Object into Your Model

1. Locate the model object Alternate Resource Get Order and select the insert button.


3. Update Objects

1. Copy the action logic from Process and paste it in the activity where you want to get alternate resources.

This model object can be used to get a single resource to any number of resources. Just modify the action logic of the Process activity.

copy logic in Alternate Resource Get Order

2. Update the action logic by replacing the Worker resource names with your own names.

update logic in Alternate Resource Get Order

3. Alter the Time statement in the action logic to match your needed time.

4. Delete the Process activity.

You can copy and paste the action logic to any other activity where you want to alternate resource usage.

4. Completion


Attributes, Variables, Scenario Parameters and Scenarios Usage


1. a_Cycle: Do not change. An entity specific number representing which sequence of Get’s to use


1. v_Count: Do not change. A global counter to control which GET sequence to use.