Drug Collecting process flow

[pert_p]

[ FlexSim 22.2.0 ]

Drug.fsm

I need some help. I want to create process flow and run it under the details like

-Inter arrival time
-Number of Collectors with process time
-Number of verifiers (inspectors) with process time

The process start with incoming of order (Expression Exponential 20 orders/hour) and then into collecting process with processing time to complete each orders then next to verify process and then into sink ( completed process)

the purpose of this I want to evaluate manpower planning into the process

The help that Iw need

1.How to create simulation

2. Which dashboard should be used

[moehlmann_fe · Accepted solution]

If your goal is simulate this entirely "virtually" (in Process Flow only), then I wouldn't use the HC environment, since it's Process Flow activities are build to control a 3d model.

In the default environment, you can use numeric resources to represent the staff. Both their quantity, as well as the process times can be controlled through parameters.

Which dashboards to use is something that you will have to determine yourself, based on what exactly you want to measure. A good indicator of well the system is working might be the backlog, meaning the amount of tokens that are waiting to acquire a worker. This can be easily plotted in a Content vs. Time graph of the acquire activities.

PF-standalone-example-fm.fsm

[pert_p]

the process flow is work. and i asked more if I want to plan about manpower in each hour like how many people (Collector and Verifier) should have in each hour. How to do like that?

[pert_p]

I want to monitor performace of each people and want to see waiting time of token that not be served, total time of each token and quantity of tokens output

[moehlmann_fe]

Would the number of people at each hour be an input (you define how many workers are available by hour and check how well the model runs) or an output (there are more than enough workers in the model and you measure how many were needed over time)?

[pert_p]

I'm really sorry. It's hard to understand. Do you have any demo-model to let me see it?

[jason_lightfootVL7B4]

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[joerg_vogel_HsH]

We had a similar model in our courses in the past. We had a production plant of 100 processing machines which run into breakdowns by statistical distribution. You can build a model that consists of 100 processors acting as a realistic plant structure. Then you can send operators for maintenance and repair to processors. But this Modell structure looks realistic, but it does not support an easy solution.

A different model structure leads to faster results. If you think of repair jobs being your tasks to work with, you can see them as items in a 3D model. A member of maintenance staff is replaced by a processor object. Each time a breakdown occurs an item is created and being processed on an available processor. In your scenario all processed items must be inspected. Then you collect them after first processing in a queue and send them to other processors for inspecting tasks.
Later you can optimize your results by choosing different send to port option for item distributions like random, random if available, and so on.
You can evaluate your data by staytime in queues and utilization of processors. You can connect more or even less processors in your model. You can add timetables, breakdowns, and setup times to simulate shifts, pauses and cleaning duties.

[moehlmann_fe]

That was the point of my question. How the model might be structured depends on whether the number of operators is an input or an output of the model.

In the first case, you would define a specific number as a parameter, run the model and check if that number was sufficient.

In the second case, you might provide an unlimited number of operators and measure how many are actually used and then get a rough estimate of the required number which might then be checked again with the first approach.

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