Optimizer: Sequence Simple
Getting Started | This operator allows to find an ideal time interval for a task or shift in a given possible and a given preferred time interval. This could help to find the optimal time interval for breaks or service tasks which are not too time critical.
For this operator you need two data grids: - One containing the information for the task like preferred from and to, the planned from and to and the duration of the task.
- One grid containing the shift data
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Input data | This is the data containing the task information. This data is provided by the parent data node or by the data node itself. Column | Value | | Description |
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Identifier | Any | opt. | Which columns should be analysed as identifier? | Column Planned From | Date | | Column containing begin of valid period. | Column Planned To | Date | | Column containing the end of valid period. | Column Preferred From | Date | | Column containing begin of preferred period. | Column Preferred To | Date | | Column containing the end of preferred period. | Column Ratio | Text | | This field describes how many tasks one person can do at the same time. The ratio is defined like: 1:1 (one person can do one task) or 1:2 (one person can do two tasks at the same time) | Column Duration | Integer | | Duration of the Task or Shift |
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Parameter with Shift Information | The first five settings are linked to another data node, which contains information about shift types, such as identifier and shift length (from/to). Parameter | Value | | Description |
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Data node containing shifts | | | Node with Shift Times. | Column(s) Shift Identifier | Text | opt. | Shift Identifier | Column Shift From | Date | | Shift Beginning | Column Shift To | Date | | Shift End | Column Shift Persons | Number with decimal places | | Shift Number of Persons |
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Other Parameters | The other parameters contain: Weight Hours | Number with decimal places | Weight on Hours |
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Weight Continuous | Number with decimal places | Weight on Continuous | Weight Peak | Number with decimal places | Weight on Peaks | Weight Shift | Number with decimal places | Weight within the shift | Weight Preferred | Number with decimal places | Weight within the shift preferred | Optimization Runs | Integer | Number of optimization runs |
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Example | In this example from a hospital, patients should be transported from a place to another one. The times are normally given by the beginning or the end of a treatment, but have some flexibility at the end. So the optimizer calculated the ideal time period for these transports.
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Attention | Pleases be aware that the Optimizer can only deal with a minimum interval of one minute. |
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