Is it possible to create time paths?

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Marzanne asked Feb 28 2019 at 9:01 PM Joshua S converted comment to answer Mar 06 2019 at 9:08 PM

Is it possible to create time paths?

I am modeling a system in which I have historical data for the amount of time that it takes a piece of machinery to reach a certain station, which changes depending on the travel distance, traffic, and other variable conditions. I would like to apply the statistical distributions that I have found for these travel durations to time paths, but I'm not sure what the best way to do that is.

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FlexSim 19.0.0

travel variable travel time time path

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Joshua S commented · Feb 28 2019 at 11:11 PM

How do you want to model the movement of the piece of machinery, or what do you mean by time paths?

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Marzanne Joshua S commented · Mar 01 2019 at 1:13 PM

Before I started with FlexSim in the past couple months, I used another modeling software called Simio. A time path is one of the objects in Simio, and it allows the user to specify an amount of time between two points instead of a distance. For example, you could connect two objects with a path that is five minutes to travel or an exponentially distributed amount of time to travel, and the token/operator/etc. will take that much time to get there.

I am open to modeling the machinery and the system in different ways, I am really looking for suggestions on how to create the best representation of the system. Ideally I could use the paths for AGV travel, but I don't think you can assign times to these.

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Answer 1 · 2019-03-01T19:05:30Z

Joshua S answered Mar 01 2019 at 7:05 PM

In FlexSim you can specify the speed at which you want your machinery/operator to move, and this can factor in the distance between 2 points. For and AGV system, that is more tricky if you have multiple pieces of machinery, but simple for single ones. For network node paths, this is much simpler. So it's up to you which one you want to use. The speeds at which the machinery is going can be changed. If you upload your model or an outline of what you are doing we can help you further.

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