To access 'Map' label from Station on Conveyor belt

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Abhay Bajpai asked Oct 5, '23 Jeanette F commented Oct 11, '23

To access 'Map' label from Station on Conveyor belt

I want to the processing time at conveyor station to be the number from a Map array "cycleTimeMap" at every station corresponding to the 'modelID' of the generated flow item at source. For example, if the station is "M1A", then it should look for all parts that need to be created in the label called "partMap" of station and then check the corresponding cycle time value for each of those parts in the list of "partMap" in the label "cycleTimeMap". If there is only 1 part, then the same number should be chosen but if there are 2 or more than 2 parts in the list for modelID "M1A", then it should take the maximum one. I have circled the "cycleTimeMap" in the picture below. Also attached the model.

ChampionHomes_V8_6.fsm

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FlexSim 23.2.0

labels conveyor station map

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championhomes-v8-6.fsm (16.4 MiB)

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Oct 11, 2023 at 04:49 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-10-05T23:30:05Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Oct 5, '23 Jason Lightfoot edited Oct 5, '23

From champion-homes-assembly-making-replica-2-jl.fsm you had the expression for cycletime as:

current.cycleTimeMap.as(Map)[item.modelID]

This relied on the max processing time already being calculated as part of the cycletime map creation using this code from the original WriteStationMaps:

string sql="SELECT ModelName, MAX(ProcessingTime) FROM PTimeByPart WHERE StationID='"+stationID+"' GROUP BY ModelName";
Table result=Table.query(sql);
Map cycleTimeMap;
for (int n=result.numRows;n>0;n--)
    cycleTimeMap[result[n][1]]=result[n][2];
station.cycleTimeMap=cycleTimeMap.clone();

However I see that this has been rewritten for some reason. I would suggest reinstating the max processing time into the cycletimeMap if it's not there already and read it using the syntax above.

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