different processing time for different product from global table

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eddie0527 asked Mar 15, '23 Felix Möhlmann answered Mar 15, '23

different processing time for different product from global table

Hello Flexsim Answers Group,

I am doing a personalised juice simulation and I am quite new to Flexsim. I have attached the simulation model above.
I am currently trying to let the processor and station read the data readied in the global table once the product reached them respectively. In this model, I schedule 4 products with each different processing time. I do know I can use the global table look up feature, but due to too little knowledge on programming, I do not know which label should I attach to the column and row of the global table. O have lookup on related question in the community but no posts are teaching on how to search both row along with the column of the global table. So, I hope you can really help guide me to link the data in the global data to the processing time of stations and processor for different product, thank you very much in advanced!

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.0.10

processtime globaltable different product

testsample-1.fsm (11.4 MiB)

Answer 1 · 2023-03-15T08:54:01Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Mar 15, '23

Global table rows and columns can be accessed either by their number or by their header (name). The rows are in your case fixed per process, so you can just type them in directly.

For the columns, you can either use the name of the items, since they match the headers (except the column for product5 is missing). To use numbers, you would mirror the product type in a label that is assigned to the items either directly in the source or later through a trigger function.

(Example for using numbers for both the row as well as the column on the labelling machine)

(Example for using text for both the row as well as the column on the labelling machine)

In your case both options are usable. However for many other things, such as assigning different colors to objects or sending them to different destination based on their type, numbers are easier to use, so I would suggest to get used to using those to identify item properties.

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