How can i set up a technical availability for an AGV?

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Martin T4 asked Apr 25, '23 Joerg Vogel edited May 6, '23

How can i set up a technical availability for an AGV?

My question is, it's is possible to give an agv a technical availability?

Best regards and thank you

Martin

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FlexSim 23.0.5

agvcontrol

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Kavika F ♦ commented · Apr 25, 2023 at 05:37 PM

Hey @Martin T4, could you please describe what you mean by "technical availability"?

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Martin T4 Kavika F ♦ commented · May 05, 2023 at 12:59 PM

Hello Kavlk,

sorry for my late response.

With tehcnical availability i mean:

Thank you Martin

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Martin T4 commented · May 05, 2023 at 03:19 PM

There's no built in OEE/TEE set of calculations in FlexSim at the moment, you need to set the states up yourself. You can do this using the standard states or your own custom state profiles.

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · May 03, 2023 at 02:25 AM

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Answer 1 · 2023-05-06T08:14:02Z

Joerg Vogel answered May 6, '23 Joerg Vogel edited May 6, '23

Availability is a statistical value based to time.

In seconds there is it a downtime in milliseconds. In minutes it is in seconds. Those would only act as delays of work or slower speeds of an AGV. In hours you can create downtimes to let stop an AGV on route. If an AGV working period lasts longer than its supposed availability then the chance of a longer downtime increases.

More important is the character of downtimes. Are they short and often or long and rarely? To get a stable availability over time you must choose short and often, but this is only a lesser efficiency or slower speed.
If you create long lasting breakdowns, you create automatically a larger deviation to a stable availability depending on runtime of your model.
The simple answer is there is not an availability statistical picklist option in FlexSim for automated guided vehicles or a system of them. But you can implement a technical availability by breakdowns upon MTBF/MTTR tool. You get reliable results only if a number of your breakdowns exceeds 1000 better 10.000 to fit into your model runtime.

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