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Component States

COMPONENT MODELING | COMPONENT SCRIPTING

A component can be modeled to have one or more defined states, which you can control using Python API. States are created in a Statistics behavior and can be used to control the functionality of other behaviors. For example, when a component is in a Broken state, you can disable paths.

In this tutorial you learn how to:

Create default and custom states in a component.
Write a component script that can control and record component states during a simulation.
Write a component script that can simulate meantime between failures (MTBF) and meantime to repair (MTTR) states in a component.
Export state statistics collected during a simulation to a CSV file

Software Version: 4.0.2

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