Utlization stats from ProcessFlow resources

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Paul G8 asked May 23, '22 Kavika F commented May 31, '22

Utlization stats from ProcessFlow resources

I know this has been asked before - just curious if there's an update 3 years on (https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/22292/how-can-i-get-resource-utilization-statistics-from.html).

Still familiarizing myself with FlexSim. I've created the Basics tutorial model, including pushing it to a combo of 3D model and controlling ProcessFlow. However that has lost the service desk utlization in the outputs dashboard. Im guessing there's no easy way of picking this up as it was in the 3D only version of the model?

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FlexSim 22.1.2

processflow utlization

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · May 23, 2022 at 09:00 PM

Hey @anthony.johnson ,

As far as I can tell the answer to this is no. You helped answer the original post several years ago and I was wondering if you had any insight.

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Kavika F ♦ commented · May 31, 2022 at 07:22 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-05-27T14:20:25Z

anthony.johnson answered May 27, '22 anthony.johnson edited May 27, '22

This has not significantly changed since the original post, in that there still are no 'drop-in' mechanisms for it, although the customizations to get what you need are relatively easy. If you want utilizations of individual objects, then Brenton's answer is still valid. If you are looking for an 'overall utilization' statistic, then you can implement the content-as-ratio mechanism by customizing the statistics collector of an average content chart. I've attached an example model.

Add a model parameter 'NumResources' and have the resource use that as its resource count.
Add an Average Content chart to a dashboard and connect the chart to the resource.
In the Advanced pane of the chart's properties, click Install to put the statistics collector into your toolbox.
Open the Average Content Collector's properties, and in the Columns table, click on AverageContent, and for its Value, add ' / Model.parameters.NumResources' to the end of the expression.
Change various display texts from 'Content' to 'Utilization'

In the attached model I tweaked it a little more so that you can do it for multiple resources with differing counts.

Hope this helps.

ResourceUtilization.fsm

resourceutilization.fsm (152.9 KiB)

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