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How to feed dashboards during a certain period of time only ?

Hello :)

I am trying to study the state of an operating room.

The room is available for surgery from 8am to 6pm. Its states can be :

  • idle (the room is empty)
  • occupied (a surgery is ongoing)
  • maintenance (a cleaning after a surgery is ongoing)

The dashboard takes into account all the hours of the day. However, I would like it to compute the indicators only during the opening hours of the operating room (8am-6pm).

How do I do that ?

Thanks in advance,

Leah



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Hi Leah,

Please find attached a small example: 2021-05-28 Exclude off schedule from state analysis.fsm

There is a time table:

For each period (0:00-8:00 & 18:00-24:00), I've selected OffSchedule as the Down Behavior.

By default, this down behavior uses the state "OffSchedule":

In the Avg State chart properties, click on Edit Location States. I have added OffSchedule in the list of additional states and I excluded it from the state analysis calculation:

In my example, if you run the model from 8:00 to 18:00, the utilization of the OR is 50%.

If you run the model from 0:00 to 24:00, the OR utilization is still 50%, even if there are no patient from 0:00 to 8:00 and from 18:00 to 24:00. Because during these hours the OR state is OffSchedule and I excluded it from the state analysis.

Hope this helps.


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Hi @Leah R,

if your are using the default state chart, you could have the room enter a fourth state (for example "Scheduled Down") during the time from 6pm to 8am (easiest done by assigning it to a time table if not already done) and exclude that state in the state chart.
("Scheduled Down" should be excluded by default)


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Thank you very much for your answers guys !

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