Use Global table to look up process time

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Jingyong P asked Jun 18, '20 Jingyong P commented Jun 18, '20

Use Global table to look up process time

Thanks for reading my post.

I am build a model to simulate multiple processes. I would like to use the processors' name (in this example, its processor 1 and process 2) and ItemName to look up the process time in global table.

for example., product 1's process time on processor 1 is 50 and on processor 2 is 25.

ultimately, when I add more and more processes/processors into the model , it can lookup the process time from Global Table as long as the name matches.

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FlexSim 20.1.2

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Answer 1 · 2020-06-18T20:10:35Z

tannerp answered Jun 18, '20 Jingyong P commented Jun 18, '20

You can put the processor's name in the row field on the Global Table lookup like what I've done here:

Hopefully this helps.

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Jingyong P commented · Jun 18, 2020 at 08:24 PM

Thank you @tanner.p

Yes, with your help, i am half way there. I updated accordingly.

But how to make Column section more flexible instead of hard coded column number?

can I use Flowitem label to help identify column number?

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tannerp Jingyong P commented · Jun 18, 2020 at 08:36 PM

Yes, you should be able to use a label on the Flow Item just like what we did for the row. For example:

item.productType //Returns string like "Product 1"

Go ahead and add the labels and try it, then let me know if it works.

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Jingyong P tannerp commented · Jun 18, 2020 at 08:53 PM

Its working. Thank you again.

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