GaBi Paper Clip Tutorial - GaBi Software

Procedure
49. Double click on the ‘Paper Clip Bending’ process and enter a scaling factor of
‘1000’.
50. Select ‘Fixed’.
Now the processes and flows on the plan will scale to reflect the amounts required to
manufacture 1000 paper clips. We could also scale the fixed process to 500 paper clips or
1 million and all flow amounts would change proportionally.
If no process or more than one process on a plan is fixed, there will be an error message.
This means you need to go back and check that exactly one process is fixed.
You can easily see if a process is fixed by checking for crosses like the one you see here.
We now have a plan for the paper clip life cycle that contains the paper clip bending
process and steel wire process.
3.21 Adding processes to plans
You should notice red spots in the top left and right corners of some of your processes. If
you can already see the red dots on the process box for the unconnected inputs of the
process, just continue.
If you cannot see these,
51. Click ‘View’ in the menu bar and select ‘Show tracked in/outputs.’
These dots indicate the number of tracked input and output flows and whether or not they
have been linked. In this case you have not yet linked any of the processes and so all the
tracked flows are displayed as red dots.
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