Output/Hour statistics of mass flow conveyors

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Sara Bonansea asked Feb 23, '22 Sara Bonansea answered Feb 28, '22

Output/Hour statistics of mass flow conveyors

Hi everyone!

I have started using mass flow conveyors in FlexSim 22.0.1 and I am struggling with the following problem. The steps to reproduce it are the following:

1) Drag a source, a mass flow conveyor and a sink in the 3D model;

2) Join the source to the MFC with a connection "A";

3) Join the MFC to the sink with a connection "A" ;

4) Pin to dashboard the Output/Hour statistic of the MFC using a table chart;

5) Reset and run the model;

Results: the Output/Hour chart does not update.

Is it a bug or an issue?

ThroughputDashboardMFC.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.0.1

mfc

throughputdashboardmfc.fsm (39.5 KiB)

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Feb 28, 2022 at 03:53 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-02-23T14:24:40Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Feb 23, '22 Jason Lightfoot edited Feb 23, '22

Yes it's not going to be compatible as the standard stats collector is item based and there may not be any items associated with the mass flow conveyor's input and output (eg. when it's reached steady state flow rate and is in the middle of a set of conveyors). You can of course create your own statistics collector to track this.

Answer 2 · 2022-02-28T15:56:32Z

Sara Bonansea answered Feb 28, '22

Thank you Jason for your answer, it is very clear!

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