The throughput of some amount, e.g., basically a flow of discretely counted entities, measured in each/s.

Notes

• While Rate can be used for fractional rates of flow or for the throughput of a continuously measured, dimensionless quantity, AmountRate is to be used for the throughput of discretely countable entities like people, tangible assets, and material.


• Using Rate for a fractional rate allows unit checking to catch unit mismatch in cases when a fractional rate has not been multiplied by some amount.


• AmountRate is similar to the MolarFlowRate used in Chemistry: We can succinctly describe flows of similar substances, i.e., entities, while avoiding the need to name each and every entity—an advantage with regard to component reuse.


• In Wolfram System Modeler, the unit each/s will be shown as #/s in Model Center and Simulation Center.

AmountRate	Quantity: "Throughput" Unit: #/s

• Added in v2.0.0.


• Changed quantity from "AmountRate" to "Throughput" in v2.2.