Activity's Duration and Time-based Events

You need to enhance your models with information about the duration of activities or the effective dates of events. When you are going to assign an inter-arrival time (to an event) or a duration (to an activity), the Time Editor appears (see picture below).

Three Perspectives

The Time Editor offers three perspectives, which provide different approaches for assigning timing information:

• The Time Span mode: This allows you to set up any distribution for an inter-arrival time or a duration
• Time Time Instant mode: This allows you to pick the start date from a calendar and the assign a rate at which the event will be repeated
• This mode allows further formalization of the time instants (Scripted Time Instants) by using the Python programming language.
• Note that the Time Instant mode is not available for durations of activities