How do I assign incremental labels in Process flow?

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Sonia A asked Feb 19, '21 Sonia A answered Feb 22, '21

How do I assign incremental labels in Process flow?

Hi Everybody, I am learning how to build a model in Flexsim and I have a doubt about incremental labels in the Process flow. I would like the incoming items to have a label that indicates the number of those items. The first item that enters into the process should have label 1, the second item should have label 2 etc. I have tried to assign an incremental label called NItem to the flowing tokens but I am missing something because it is not working. I have attached the simple model that I did.

Can someone help me with that? Thank you so much!

increasing_lable.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 16.2.2

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.0

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.0

processflow labels flexsim 21.0.0 increment label item creation

increasing-lable.fsm (29.0 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Feb 19, 2021 at 01:53 PM

There is a mismatch with your namespace. Process flow is a 2D graphic enhanced logic layer. Tokens are 2D shapes to represent cycle steps of processes.

Your model is a 3D model with 3d flow items looking like boxes. And your model of FlexSim Version 16.2 works as you describe it without any problems in Version 17.0 and 21.0.

I don't know what your problem is. Do you want to do the same label assignment with a process flow logic in FlexSim Version 21.0.0?

The model is a copy from an older answer:

https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/30326/how-do-i-create-a-label-that-increases-its-value-b.html

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Sonia A Joerg Vogel commented · Feb 19, 2021 at 02:55 PM

I am very sorry but I uploaded a different model that I had gotten from another question (with the hope to solve the same problem of the incremental label). Anyway, I have uploaded the right file now. The problem is that by adding an incremental label I would expect each token to have its own numbered label as explained in my question. So the first token that enters the model should have label NItem equal to 1, the second token should have the label NItem equal to 2 and so on. With what I have built, however, the label is always equal to 1 and I don't know what I am missing. Thank you so much for your support!

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Answer 1 · 2021-02-21T04:09:59Z

Joerg Vogel answered Feb 21, '21

I know my suggestion doesn’t meet your expectations completely, but maybe you can work with the token ID property. The first token gets the ID 1, the second the ID 2 and so on. But there are sub processes in statistic collectors, which create tokens, too. And those will interfere with your own process and will at some point set a higher ID number then actually entered number of tokens created in your process only.

Answer 2 · 2021-02-19T14:03:29Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Feb 19, '21

You can define a counter label on the processFlow itself and increment that before assigning the label value to your tokens. There are many other solutions I'm sure using variables, instance objects, stats of the activities - too many to list.

Answer 3 · 2021-02-22T09:00:02Z

Sonia A answered Feb 22, '21

Thank you so much for your help!

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