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display process time

ahmad_zulfy_a — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:19:04 GMT

[ FlexSim 23.0.0 ]

shanghai current.fsmHello..
Could you help me to inform how to display the processing time per processor below the processor ?

Re: display process time

moehlmann_fe — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 10:01:04 GMT

In his comment below the answer to this question, Phil demonstrates how to edit what is shown in the text box of 3d object.

If the process time is a fixed value, you can read it as a property of the processor
("string.fromNum(current.getProperty("ProcessTime"), 2)").

If the value is determined individually for each item, you have to store the value that is determined in the process time field somewhere else (for example a label), so that the OnDraw trigger has access to it.

ShowProcessTime_fm.fsm

Re: display process time

joerg_vogel_HsH — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 10:11:23 GMT

Individual_statistics_processor.fsm

Process Time and PreDraw Trigger evaluating a number label value.

Re: display process time

ahmad_zulfy_a — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:02:36 GMT

OK thankyou. can be shown like time elapse from the start until the end of the process ?

Re: display process time

ahmad_zulfy_a — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:25:20 GMT

But why when start run the simulation it change to show %idle, not always show avgStayTime

Re: display process time

ahmad_zulfy_a — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:27:39 GMT

shanghai current.fsm

Re: display process time

ahmad_zulfy_a — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:29:03 GMT

Here is the picture

Re: display process time

moehlmann_fe — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 07:03:44 GMT

The processors that show processing and idle percentage don't have anything set in their Pre Draw trigger.

Re: display process time

moehlmann_fe — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 07:05:44 GMT

You can get the elapsed time since the item entered the processor with this expression:

"current.subnodes.length>0 ? (Model.time - getentrytime(current.first)):0"

It functions like this: Are there any items in the processor? If yes, return the difference between the time of entry and the current model time. If not, return 0.

Re: display process time

joerg_vogel_HsH — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 07:35:54 GMT

@Ahmad_zulfy A, current elapsed process time is not as easy to calculate as it seems on the first hand. Yes, you can assume a processing start, when an item has entered a processor. There are other events that can delay this type of information. A setup time occurs before processIng start. A call for operators delays a start until enough operators have arrived. A breakdown could timely happen at the same time, when an item enters a processor. If you then updates the elapsed process time upon entering of an item, the value is possibly wrong. You can only be certain about a stored process time store in a node as a value like a label, Or you can evaluate the process time after finishing processing in processor statistics.