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The Combiner should be in a collecting state after the container flowitem arrives (the item coming through the first port, like a pallet or tote). And I believe the collecting state is considered a utilized state by default. If it's not, you can always change that in the State Table used in your utilization charts on the Dashboard. Let me know if I am misunderstanding the issue you are seeing with the statistics.

Nevertheless, you could set the Process Time of each bundle by first figuring out how long it takes to collect all the items and then subtract that from the 1/18 minutes. I am attaching an example model (Combiner_IncludeCollectingInProcessTime_Example_24.1.fsm) to show you what I mean.

The Combiner is set up to use a label on the container (pallets in this case) called ProcessTime. And the Process Flow is what sets the ProcessTime label on the pallets.

The Process Flow creates a token every time an item enters the Combiner, and then weeds out the tokens created when the boxes enter, so only one token is used for each bundle.

It waits for the first item to enter the pallet and keeps track of the time that happens. Then it waits until the Setup Time finishes on the Combiner (which is just before the process time starts) and figures out the time it took to collect all items in the bundle. It subtracts this collection time from the total bundle process time (1/18 minutes or 3.33 seconds) and uses that to set the ProcessTime label on the pallet. It also checks if ProcessTime is negative and sets it to 0 if it is. The end result is the total time a bundle stays on the Combiner (from the time the first box enters) is 3.33 seconds (or possibly longer if the collection time is more than 3.33 seconds), and so you should have about 18 bundles leaving the Combiner a minute.

The example has boxes being produced continually, but that can be changed to something more akin to your process to double check that is works correctly.