Eliminate Sources Based on Rule Example

The table below shows the elements of the array points defined Eliminate Sources Based on Rule organized as a table.

Columns and rows represent the following.

Column

Elements of one of the array points

Row

Business rule for a particular attribute name/value pair (yellow-shaded elements).

0 = Ignored elements. In practice any value, or no value, can be assigned to an ignored array point element.

 

 

Rule
Type

 

 

Attribute 
Name

 

 

Attribute 
Value

 

 

 

Rule

Upper
Release

%

Limit

Lower
Release

%

Limit

 

 

 

Count

 
Attribute
Release

Count

Total
Release
Count
Point

 


Breakable

S

Color

Red

3

0

0

2

32

 

0

G

Color

Green

2

0

0

2

11

 

0

P

Doors

Two

0

20

15

3

25

134

1

B

SOLVE

$IsaTruck$

4

0

0

5

17

 

0

P

Doors

Four

0

60

40

2

74

 

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S.  Array elements for the first row S (Spacing) rule keep count of the following:

  1. At least three consecutive non-red items must be selected before another red item can be selected.

  2. Two non-red items have been selected since the last red item was selected.

  3. If the current item is

A.

Not red

The Spacing rule has not been broken.

The item will be selected.

The count will go to 3.

B.

Red

The Spacing rule has been broken.

The item will fail and will be either weighted or eliminated.

The count will stay at 2.

G.   Array elements for the second row G (Grouping) rule provide the following:

  1. Only two green items can be selected consecutively.

  2. Two consecutive green items have been counted.

  3. If the current item is

A.

Not green

The Spacing rule has not been broken.

The item will be selected.

The count will go to 0.

B.

Green

The Spacing rule has been broken.

The item will fail and will be either weighted or eliminated.

The count will stay at 2.

P.   Array elements for the third row P (Percentage) rule provide the following:

  1. The percent of selected two- door items must fall in the following range.

Maximum

20%

Minimum

15%

  1. 25 2-door items have been selected.

  2. The percent of the Total Release Count, 134, is 19%.

  3. The count is still within the bounds of the rules, but is close to breaking the maximum.

In this example, a warning alarm will be triggered to alert production.

Result based on the first three rules and values in this table:

The next item can be neither red nor green.

No more than 2 2-door cars can be selected before 4-door cars are selected.

The additional rules provide further filters for selecting items.

More information

Eliminate Source based on Rule.