Hi,
I have simulated a production line with a production cell, which consists of 4 servers. The cell's flow is controlled by Lock and Unlock atoms and only one product can be in the cell at the same time. The cell itself is a part of bigger production line.
What would be the best option to monitor the cell's overall utilization? Basically I would like to know how many % of of available time the cell has been working. Currently I have been able to attach StatusMonitor atom only to single server.
Help appreciated!
Production cell StatusMonitor
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Re: Production cell StatusMonitor
Hello MartinL,
Have a look into the Utilization attribute of the server atom. There's something like:
SetupTime returns the time the given atom (in this case the owner c itself) has status 2 (in this case Busy). See F1.
In your case I'd calculate the utilization of the whole cell by myself like:
You can simply add the respective times since you cannot have two products in your cell and thus you won't get above 100%.
Please note: Don't forget to enable status monitoring with EnableStatusMonitor(c, 1) in your Reset or Init handler.
Have a look into the Utilization attribute of the server atom. There's something like:
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SetupTime(c, 2) / Time * 100
In your case I'd calculate the utilization of the whole cell by myself like:
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(SetupTime(refServer1, 2) + SetupTime(refServer2, 2) + ...) / Time * 100
Please note: Don't forget to enable status monitoring with EnableStatusMonitor(c, 1) in your Reset or Init handler.