Rockwell Automation Arena OptQuest Users Guide - Manual (Page 13)

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restricting the staff to a total of eight people. Additional staff restrictions apply to each
function, as shown in the following table.
The decision problem is to address how to staff each function considering the limit on the
total number of people.
To begin the first tutorial:
1. Start Arena.
2. Open the Movie Theater Design.doe model from the Arena Examples folder.
Before running OptQuest, determine the decision resources and variables. In this model,
the staff performing each function are defined as resources in the modules. The capacities
of the resources will be used as controls (i.e., values to vary in different scenarios) in our
optimization study.
Running OptQuest
Use the following steps to run OptQuest for the Movie Theater Design model.
1. To start OptQuest from Arena, select Tools > OptQuest for Arena.
This will invoke the initial OptQuest window.
2. Select New Optimization.
When you start a new file, OptQuest presents the first of the main configuration
windows. We will open these windows in a specific order in this tutorial, but you can
revisit any window via the tree pane or by choosing from the selections on the View
menu.
First, the Controls Summary window appears showing a grid of variables and
resources from the Arena model.
Staff Lower Bound Current Staffing Upper Bound
Main Refreshment Staff 1 2 4
Satellite Refreshment Staff 1 1 4
Ticket Takers 1 2 3