Dashboard to show contents of combined items?

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Lambert asked Dec 13, '22 Lambert commented Dec 13, '22

Dashboard to show contents of combined items?

Hi,

I have double stacked pallets and single stacked pallets containing different number of totes (I use combiners to stack them).

When I use a dashboard to monitor the content of a queue, it obviously shows the number of "grouped items" in the queue. In the image below, content = 1.

Is there a way to make the dashboard show the number of totes instead? For the image above, it would be (12+16) = 28

Thank you

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.0.0

combiners

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Answer 1 · 2022-12-13T16:22:02Z

Marcello Rosadini answered Dec 13, '22 Lambert commented Dec 13, '22

Hi Lambert,

one possible solution would be to create a label in the queue and every time a pallet enters, increase its value by the number of totes inside that particular pallet (pallet.subnodes.length) and decrease it accordingly when a pallet leaves. Then, on your dashboard you can graph the value of the label instead of the content of the queue.

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Lambert commented · Dec 13, 2022 at 04:27 PM

Thanks Marcello, I forgot to mention that I am interested in displaying time-series charts (i.e. COMPOSITE WIP) grouping several queues (entrance and exit objects).

Would the label method apply as well?

thank you

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Marcello Rosadini commented · Dec 13, 2022 at 04:46 PM

Here its an alternative using a tracked variable. You can create one from the toolbox and increase it or decrease it from process flow

support tracked variable.fsm

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support-tracked-variable.fsm (36.5 KiB)

Lambert Marcello Rosadini commented · Dec 13, 2022 at 04:51 PM

this will work like a charm!

thank you Marcello

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