How to change state of patient when performing animation?

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Abel van der Windt asked Jun 24 2019 at 12:47 PM Matthew Gillespie commented Jul 05 2019 at 9:06 PM

How to change state of patient when performing animation?

I am busy with building a simulation model of a hospital. When I added a state pie for the patients I noticed that if a patient is performing an animation, for example taking place on a seat in the waiting room, this counts as idle time.

Can I change the state of a patient during an animation somewhere?

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.1.1

animation people module state

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Jun 24 2019 at 4:56 PM

Are you talking about the second it takes the person to sit down? If so you're not using realistic process times. Most process times and travel times are much longer than the brief moment it takes a person to sit down, so that time should not even really show up in the course of a patient's flow.

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Abel van der Windt Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Jun 25 2019 at 7:45 AM

Yes, I put in just one patient in the model to see what happens. Then, if you add up the time of all the animations of a patient throughout the hospital I end up with 0.39% idle time on a total time of 4.15 hours that this patient spent in the hospital.

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Answer 1 · 2019-06-25T23:45:17Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Jun 25 2019 at 11:45 PM Matthew Gillespie commented Jul 05 2019 at 9:06 PM

You can customize the Enter and Exit instructions of Location objects. You could add an enter instruction that sets the patients state using code like this:

loc.stats.state("HC States").as(TrackedVariable).value = "InTransit";

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