topic Re: Is it possible to anticipate on process finish of processor? in FlexSim Forum

Is it possible to anticipate on process finish of processor?

bert_s10 — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:42:04 GMT

[ FlexSim 20.2.0 ]

I wonder if I can anticipate on the on process finish of a processor. So for example, if I know that within 5 minutes, the processor is going to be finished, I already want to send a task executer to the processor. If you use a fixed process time, it is of course not that difficult to figure out how to do this using process flow, but I want to use a distribution for the process time, so it will be different everytime.

So, how can you send a task executer 5 minutes beforehand to a processor (using a distribution for the process time)?

Is this maybe possible by using custom code in the event triggered source and by saying for example: if left process time - 300 seconds = 0, trigger event? And if so, how would you implement this? (I am not good with custom code/flexscript)

Re: Is it possible to anticipate on process finish of processor?

joerg_vogel_HsH — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 15:28:32 GMT

There are different scenarios in ascending order of difficulty.

You assign a label at the item, that value is the process time. You read this label at the processor to set the process time.
The process time is a statistical distribution. You open the source code and declare the return value to be assigned to a double variable. You assert a label at the item to store this variable value and then you return the variable value as the process time.
Your read the events already created in the event list of the program for the processor object to identify the process finish time.

Re: Is it possible to anticipate on process finish of processor?

bert_s10 — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 16:32:59 GMT

Yes, I already thought about doing it the first way. Thank you for your response, I will try.

Re: Is it possible to anticipate on process finish of processor?

joerg_vogel_HsH — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 09:17:12 GMT

scenario 1: Notify_300s_before_process_finish.fsm

Re: Is it possible to anticipate on process finish of processor?

bert_s10 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:59:35 GMT

Thank you very much, I really appreciate. This is more elegant than how I tried to do it.