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

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Leah R asked May 27, '21 Leah R edited May 31, '21

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

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.1.0

operation room kpi

Answer 1 · 2021-05-28T07:24:11Z

Clair A answered May 28, '21 Clair A edited May 28, '21

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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Answer 2 · 2021-05-28T06:32:44Z

Felix Möhlmann answered May 28, '21 Leah R edited May 31, '21

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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Leah R commented · May 31, 2021 at 02:47 PM

Thank you very much for your answers guys !

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