Building a production line is easy. We just put together,
in series, the number of desired machines, by duplicating
the machine block, and connect them as in figure 7. The
IsEmptyOut and Rate are connected, respectively; to the
IsEmptyIn and RateOut of the following machine and so
on … The buffer sizes are connected to the block “get-
Info” which collects the statistics and compute the average
inventory and backlog. The RateOut of the last machine
is connected to the demand rate. The first Is-
EmptyIn is connected to 1 (True) because in our case we
suppose and infinite supply otherwise we put the right
signal.