Find the time taken from source to sink in continuous process

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ArunKumar S asked Oct 27, '17 ArunKumar S answered Oct 28, '17

Find the time taken from source to sink in continuous process

Hi,

I wanted to find the first finished good entry from source to sink in a continuous process. Need to display same in the dashboard as well. Please suggest.

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.0.6

dashboard display time taken

Answer 1 · 2017-10-28T03:37:10Z

Arun Kr answered Oct 28, '17 Arun Kr commented Oct 28, '17

Hi ArunKumar S,

The easy method is you can use a process flow to listen to the on exit trigger of the source using event triggered source object and listen to the on entry trigger of the sink using wait for event activity. Display the staytime of the tokens in the wait for event activity to display the time taken.model170.fsm

Regards,

Arun KR

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ArunKumar S commented · Oct 28, 2017 at 09:34 AM

@Arun KR, thanks for your reply.

The example model you have enclosed looks blank when I open.

Can you help to re-check.

I have enclosed the layout, where the time taken to get the first component in SINK has to be derived.

Note: This is continuous production line which is simulated for 86400 seconds as run time.

lab2-batch-26oct.fsm

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lab2-batch-26oct.fsm (86.1 KiB)

Arun Kr ArunKumar S commented · Oct 28, 2017 at 12:34 PM

Hi,

You are using a lower version of FlexSim, that's the reason no objects are seen in the model. If the version you are using is v7.5, process flow is also not present. So you have to create a custom graph to plot the current and average values of the TimeInSystem tracked variable to display the time taken. batch-support.fsm

Regards,

Arun KR

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batch-support.fsm (87.0 KiB)

Answer 2 · 2017-10-28T13:07:54Z

ArunKumar S answered Oct 28, '17

Yes.. you are right.. I have 7.5.4.. Thanks @Arun KR

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