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Track Flow Products throughput in FlowWorks

Hi everyone, I am working on a FlowWorks simulation and need to track the throughput of flow products. I want to pin this data to the dashboard for real-time monitoring.

What is the best way to track the number of flow products processed?

Also, how can I properly display this data on the dashboard? Any guidance on using FlexSim's dashboard widgets effectively for this purpose would be much appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

FlexSim 24.1.1
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Hi @jayez_325 ,

Thank you for your extra comment.


For logging the throughput of the product you could for example use the Throughput Volume chart:

If you link your 3 tanks that serve as source of the product to this chart we are able to log how much has gone out. I noticed that this is a chart that you already have. This is not what you needed as an performance measure?

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This chart updates every time a rate has changed. A similar chart can be made for the product that goes out of the model. But this would than be something you need to log by making a statistics collector that listens to the trucks (with product) being destroyed.



For your second question:

I noticed that you have already created a pie chart for your bowsers. This is also the best way of calculating the utilization. The utilization is shown in the middle of that chart. The utilization chart that you have added actually only makes sense for FlowProcessors.

You might have already noticed that not all relevant states show up in your pie chart. To get this I would use the set state function in your ProcessFlow when loading/unloading the trucks. That would look something like this:

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Does this help for you? The utilization looks super low, but I am not sure if the correct amount of product is transferred, and if the correct transfer rates are used.

I added these states in the attached model. Feel free to post a comment if this was not exactly what you were looking for.


Patrick

fluidtransferproblem-1_1.fsm


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