Accelerate delay based on conditions

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Jerry asked Jul 3, '23 Jerry commented Jul 4, '23

Accelerate delay based on conditions

ex.fsmWhen the model starts, two staff members move to one bed.

91 seconds when one staff member prepares to move the bed. It takes 36 seconds for two staff members to prepare for the bed shift.

Let me give you an example here.

If the first staff arrives and the second staff arrives 40 seconds later, the remaining time will be 51 seconds with 91 seconds to 40 seconds.

I'd like to divide the time ratio 91/36 here so that the bed can move after about 20 seconds.

Eventually, the total travel time will be about 60 seconds.

I posted the same question the other day, and I was suggested how to use the global table, but it is not applied well.

Even if it's not this way, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know if there's another better way.

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FlexSim 23.1.0

global table delay acceleration

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Natalie White commented · Jul 03, 2023 at 07:49 PM

To clarify, is the second staff member always going to arrive after 40 seconds? In this case, you can just use delay activities in your process flow. Otherwise, you'll have variable delay times and probably do need to reference a global table to find the delay time you need.

Also, your example model has lots of exceptions. It will be easier to help you with this question if you fix those and reupload the model.

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Jerry Natalie White commented · Jul 03, 2023 at 08:39 PM

No, we set a time as an example to help you understand, and there is no fixed time for the staff to arrive. In this case, I'm not sure how to use the global table.

And you said there was a problem with the sample model you mentioned, what part are you talking about?

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Answer 1 · 2023-07-03T21:36:51Z

Natalie White answered Jul 3, '23 Jerry commented Jul 4, '23

The problem is all the errors shown in your system console. You will want to fix those.

There is a way you can change the delay using labels on your tokens. In the patient flow, I added an Assign Labels activity after each of the Staff to Office activities. These two labels give the times that the staff arrive at the gurney.

Then, I used these labels to create a new label, called ProcessingTime (right after the Join activity):

You can set your Delay time to be the value of this label with token.ProcessingTime.

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Jerry commented · Jul 04, 2023 at 11:15 AM

Thank you. Thanks to you, it's settled well.

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Natalie White commented · Jul 03, 2023 at 09:41 PM

The value for ProcessingTime shown above is the total processing time. But you probably want the remaining time once the second staff member arrives, instead. You'll just need to delete the first part of that value.

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