How can i get stats on my warehouse drive in racks? Looking for max slots used at any time and avg to help size the amount of storage we need. I see the normal content stats but with having to segregate my sku, there are holes you can't use so I don't want to just use max contents.
You will have to build a Statistics Collector or other logic to collect that data.
You can use querySlots() to get the number of used slots. Though in order to measure the average number of used slots you will have to do this every time an item enters or exits a slot. Depending on the number of slots, this can become quite expensive in terms of computing resources, so I would suggest to instead store the value of currently used slots somewhere (a label or as part of the Statistics Collector table) and simply increment/decrement it whenever the first item enters a slot or the last item leaves a slot.
For the average, you can add up the time for which slots had at least one item in them, summed up over all slots inside a rack. So you essentially get a "SlotSeconds" value (X slots were active for Y seconds -> XY SlotSeconds. By dividing this by the total model time, you get the average number of occupied slots. Again, this can be done by storing the previous value and adding to it whenever the number of currently used slots updates. Or by using a kinetic tracked variable (for example as a label), whose rate is always equal to the current number of active slots.
Both approaches (StatisticsCollector and Labels on Rack1) are demonstrated in the attached model. The collector listens to slot entries/exits in the "Racks" group. The labels of Rack1 are updated in its triggers.
I was able to upgrade my version. I tried both methods, it's all over my head but i'm getting the same values as the general stats. I do get an error on the onentry/exit trigger, but if i could figure that out and figure out how to refer to the whole row, I think I could modify it. I think this is counting slots as a single pallet location, i want the whole row to be counted as a "slot". So this example, I'd want to see "2" because I'm using 2 "slots"...maybe my definition is off but that's what i'm trying to determine. Once I get 1 pallet in, i would count that as "1", then if it goes to empty, a "0". Since we can't mix what goes in a single row(slot) I will end up with "holes" but need to account for all that in determining how much storage we need. Hope that makes sense.
It's hard to diagnose anything from just a screenshot without knowing how the rack dimensions/slots are set up.
WIP_Storage_61.fsm I did figure out the tracked variable was causing the error so it's commented out right now. I'm just looking for stats on the WIP storage rack, not the others.
What if more than one items are unloaded at a time.
In that case how do we get the stats.
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