How to create a dashboard for one product?

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Robert B3 asked Jan 1, '20 Robert B3 commented Jan 6, '20

How to create a dashboard for one product?

In my work i'm focusing on one piece flow, i would like to show usage of one product and show how much time stays the product on one queue, when it is not processed. Does anyone have idea how to add a dashboard for one product? Thank you in advance for all kind of help.

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FlexSim 17.2.5

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Answer 1 · 2020-01-02T22:31:51Z

tannerp answered Jan 2, '20 Robert B3 commented Jan 6, '20

Hi @Robert B3,

It would help if you attached a model to show your process. But for now, I've created an example model of how you can track the waiting time of items in a fixed resource object using a Statistics Collector. It's not too difficult to get a basic setup, but if you want more advanced statistics, you may need to do more in-depth learning of the Stats Collector and/or Process Flow. I'd recommend learning Process Flow either way.

Basically, the queue puts a label on each item for "entry time" and "exit time" of the item to the queue.

The Stats Collector then listens to the queue for items to exit.

When they do exit, a simple calculation is made using the labels on the items to know how long the item was in the queue waiting

This data can then be put into graphs and tables however you like. Hopefully this helps.

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Robert B3 commented · Jan 06, 2020 at 12:30 AM

Hi @tanner.p

I've adjusted all the settings and it works!

But there are errors that Label does not exist. By any chance do you know why this appears? It seems to work well.

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Thank you very much for help.

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Answer 2 · 2020-01-01T17:34:03Z

Braydn T answered Jan 1, '20 Robert B3 commented Jan 2, '20

@Robert B3

I think the easiest way to do this is statistics collectors. If you have not used them before, here is some information on them: https://docs.flexsim.com/en/20.0/Reference/Tools/StatisticsCollector/

You will have to have an item to attach the statistics collectors to, so you will have to already have the flow item in your model before model run. I would create a small piece of Process Flow that moves the item into the start of your process on model start.

Here is some more information on Dashboards that might be useful: https://docs.flexsim.com/en/20.0/GettingData/StandardDataGathering/KeyConceptsDashboards/

If someone has a better idea, feel free to chime in. Otherwise, if you need more help with this, tag me @Braydn T

Thanks!

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Robert B3 commented · Jan 02, 2020 at 07:31 PM

Hello Braydn.

Thank you very much for the answer.

Frankly speaking im not an expert if it comes to proces flow, so i would prefer to avoid that way. I've tried to do this with dashboard but the only way i can do is queue which is not that precise to present movement of one piece (product).

Does anyone have any ideas?

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