Using labels to assign process times

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Aaron Stanton asked Mar 14, '23 Patrick Cloutier commented Mar 14, '23

Using labels to assign process times

I am building out an outpatient infusion center and am trying to set the process (infusion) time based on patient arrival so all the long infusions arrive in the first few hours.

Is there a way to create a label or something the process can reference to know how long to infuse the patient based on their creation/arrival time?

I thought I created a label at the beginning but can't find it to reference in the process.

Thanks,

McNair 5 Scenario 8.fsm

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FlexSim 22.2.3

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Answer 1 · 2023-03-14T17:13:13Z

Patrick Cloutier answered Mar 14, '23 Patrick Cloutier commented Mar 14, '23

The label with the indusion time is correctly created in the Arrivals process but it is not yet accessible from the Patient Flow. See picture.

But it is written on the patient itself:

So you have to also assign label on the token created in the PatientFlow:

And now you have the info on the token in the PatientFlow to use as you need:

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Patrick Cloutier commented · Mar 14, 2023 at 05:32 PM

And if you want to simplify this, remove the space in your field name Infusion Time.

If you do so, you can reference it just with:

patient.InfusionTime

instead of:

patient.labels["Infusion Time"].value

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Patrick Cloutier commented · Mar 14, 2023 at 05:37 PM

Or to simplify even further, you can skip the creation of a label on the Patient Flow token and simply reference the label on the patient whenever you need that info:

patient.InfusionTime

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