Cycle Time of Item Type

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Bryan Suharik asked Jan 2, '17 Adrian Haws edited Jan 3, '17

Cycle Time of Item Type

Hello, I'm looking for help on how to show the average cycle time of an item type from one queue to another queue?

I've looked into labels, but not sure how to populate that to the statistics page.

I have roughly 10 item types through the simulation thats repeated. I need to know the average, min, max cycle time of each item type from one Queue to another Queue. There are a number of processors between the queues.

Any help or direction on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Bryan

item type cycle time zone partition zone subset

Answer 1 · 2017-01-02T21:26:29Z

Adrian Haws answered Jan 2, '17 Adrian Haws edited Jan 3, '17

Process Flow Zone shared assets are very useful in gathering and displaying statistics. In this case, you can use either zone subsets or zone partitions to find statistics for each label value. The Process Flow "listens" to the events in the 3D model to know when to enter and exit the zone, and the flowitem's itemtype is set to a label, which is then used to define the subsets or partitions.

There are some advantages to using partitions instead of subsets in this case, but both work equally well. With partitions, you can define them by token.item ("item" is the label name) instead of defining a subset for each possible value of that label. Currently you still have to add each partition value in the "Runtime" tab of the dashboard chart for those statistics to be displayed, but this necessity will be eliminated in a future release. The first attached model demonstrates using subsets and the second uses partitions.

zone-stats.fsm (25.1 KiB)

zone-stats-1.fsm (24.0 KiB)

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