Process Modeling Library blocks

Auxiliary

	Source	Generates agents.
	Sink	Disposes incoming agents.
	Delay	Delays agents by the specified delay time.
	Queue	Stores agents in the specified order.
	SelectOutput	Forwards the agent to one of the output ports depending on the condition.
	SelectOutput5	Routes the incoming agents to one of the five output ports depending on (probabilistic or deterministic) conditions.
	Hold	Blocks/unblocks the agent flow.
	Match	Finds a match between two agents from different inputs, then outputs them.
	Split	For each incoming agent (“original”) creates one or several other agents-copies.
	Combine	Waits for two agents, then produces a new agent from them.
	Assembler	Assembles a certain number of agents from several sources (5 or less) into a single agent.
	MoveTo	Moves an agent from its current location to new location.
	ResourcePool	Provides resource units that are seized and released by agents.
	Seize	Seizes the number of units of the specified resource required by the agent.
	Release	Releases resource units previously seized by the agent.
	Service	Seizes resource units for the agent, delays it, and releases the seized units.
	ResourceSendTo	Sends a set of portable and/or moving resources to specified location.
	ResourceTaskStart	Defines the start of the flowchart branch modeling the task process for resource units (usually it is a resource preparation process).
	ResourceTaskEnd	Defines the end of the flowchart branch modeling the task process for resource unit(s) (usually it is a wrap-up process).
	Downtime	Defines either maintenance, repairs, or any other kind of activity that interrupts usual resource tasks for resources specified in a ResourcePool block.
	Enter	Inserts agents created elsewhere into the flowchart.
	Exit	Accepts incoming agents.
	Batch	Accumulates agents, then outputs them contained in a new agent.
	Unbatch	Extracts all agents contained in the incoming agent and outputs them.
	Dropoff	Extracts the selected agents from the contents of the incoming agent.
	Pickup	Adds the selected agents to the contents of the incoming agent.
	RestrictedAreaStart	Limits number of agents in a part of flowchart between corresponding area start and area end blocks.
	RestrictedAreaEnd	Ends an area started with RestrictedAreaStart block.
	TimeMeasureStart	TimeMeasureStart as well as TimeMeasureEnd compose a pair of blocks measuring the time the agents spend between them, such as “time in system”, “length of stay”, etc. This block remembers the time when an agent goes through.
	TimeMeasureEnd	TimeMeasureEnd as well as TimeMeasureStart compose a pair of blocks measuring the time the agents spend between them. For each incoming agent this block measures the time it spent since it has been through one of the corresponding TimeMeasureStart blocks.
	ResourceAttach	Attaches a set of portable and/or moving resources to the agent.
	ResourceDetach	Detaches previously attached resources from the agent.
	RackSystem	This is a legacy functionality. We recommend that you use Material Handling Library blocks (Store, Retrieve, Storage System) and library-specific space markup shape Storage to model warehouses and storages. Models a storage zone containing a set of racks (defined by PalletRack shapes), providing centralized access and managing of racks.
	RackStore	This is a legacy functionality. We recommend that you use Material Handling Library blocks (Store, Retrieve, Storage System) and library-specific space markup shape Storage to model warehouses and storages. Places an agent into a cell of the specified rack (PalletRack) or storage zone (RackSystem).
	RackPick	This is a legacy functionality. We recommend that you use Material Handling Library blocks (Store, Retrieve, Storage System) and library-specific space markup shape Storage to model warehouses and storages. Picks an agent from a cell of a rack (PalletRack) or a storage zone (RackSystem) and moves it into the specified network node.
	Conveyor	This is a legacy functionality. We recommend that you use Material Handling Library. Moves agents at a certain speed, preserving order and space between them.
	PML Settings	Defines some auxiliary settings either related to all library blocks or configuring the behavior of some blocks.

Auxiliary

	Wait	This block is like Queue block with one exception: it supports manual retrieval (you need to call free(), or freeAll(). It has no ordering (except the case when preemption occurs, if the latter is turned on).
	SelectOutputIn	Both with SelectOutputOut acts as two halves of large multi-exit SelectOutput block.
	SelectOutputOut	Both with SelectOutputIn acts as two halves of large multi-exit SelectOutput block.
	PlainTransfer	A place to write some action when agent passes through some point of your flowchart.

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