How to record State Analysis Statistics every hour instead of globally

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Patrick Cloutier asked Nov 22, '16 Patrick Cloutier commented Jan 8, '19

How to record State Analysis Statistics every hour instead of globally

Hello,

I have a system that runs 24 hrs/day for 47 straight days with a lift truck doing stuff.

The end result I need is a table with the hourly utilization of that lift truck for every hour of the day. So I will have a table of 24 lines (one for each hour) and 8 columns (one for each state). Each hourly stat will be the average of 47 days.

Here's what I'm thinking:

Create a global table with 8 columns and 24 x 47 = 1128 lines
User event that repeats every hour which writes the collected state stats into the corresponding table line using getstat
The user event then resetstats
When the 47-day simulation run is done I export that table to Excel and calculate the averages I need.

Any simpler way that you can think of?

I'm afraid this will slow my simulation considerably.

Thanks a lot,

Software Version:

FlexSim 16.2.2

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Kari Payton commented · Nov 22, 2016 at 08:06 PM

@Patrick Cloutier have you tried making a GANTT chart?

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Patrick Cloutier Kari Payton commented · Nov 22, 2016 at 08:11 PM

Yes but I really need the hourly utilization and that didn't work with the Gantt,

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-22T20:56:45Z

Patrick Cloutier answered Nov 22, '16 Patrick Cloutier commented Jan 8, '19

Case closed. I did what I had in mind and it works perfectly and doesn't slow down the simulation.

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Karen Measells commented · Jan 08, 2019 at 04:09 PM

Is this code something you can share? Or has this functionality been added to the healthcare module?

Thanks-

Karen

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Patrick Cloutier Karen Measells commented · Jan 08, 2019 at 07:40 PM

I don't know if it's been added but I doubt it because it's a pretty custom stat.

Here is the code in the attached screenshot. Nothing spectacular. Just writes the states to the table every hour and then resets the stats so that I always get the stats for the last hour. The table has 9 colums for the 9 states and as many rows as needed for my simulation run. I then export the table to Excel (copy-paste) to calc percentages.

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