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Old 05-16-2015
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Default Network node MTBF

Hello everyone,
i have a question, i am modeling a distribution network, i want a node to change its connection type on break down, this is the thing, i have a tool that controls the MTBF for a set of networknodes, and i want that when they start the failure time, they change its connection tipe to "non_pasing" for an specific path, for example: "To NN3"
But i want that this thing happens for a mtbf.
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Hello Zulay,

passing and non-passing is set under the node connectionsout of the network node in the model tree. Under that node you find the connections to the other network nodes. The passing is controlled in the subnode connectionType by its number values:1 = no connection; 2 = passing; 3 = non-passing.
Another approach for "no connection" is the command closenodeedge(...). The color of the direction arrow is orange instead of red and it may behave a bit different.
Important is then the update of the Network System by the command optimizenetwork().
In an example model I got a strange behaviour when an operator get into the state blocked while he tries to go into offset traveling for delivering an item. The operator stays in the block state and freezes. To prevent this I varied the time of the MTTR a bit.

Here an example code for the Down Function:
Code:
/**Custom Code - Changing Network Connection Type*/
// definition: names of constant values
#define CONNECTIONTYPE 3
#define no_connection 1
#define passing 2
#define non_passing 3
treenode current = ownerobject(c);
treenode downobject = parnode(1);
int state = parval(2);
double downtime = parval(3);
treenode membercoupling = parnode(4);
setnodenum(rank(last(connectionsout(downobject)),CONNECTIONTYPE),non_passing);
// equal: setnodenum(rank(last(connectionsout(downobject)),3),3);
optimizenetwork();
return 0;
I change in this code the last connection to another network node in the list of the network nodes.
The connection type is reset to passing (num = 2) again in the Resume Function.

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