State report based on the operational time

Hi Guys,

I have a model with a time table, and I want to generate the state report without the « schedule down state »and based only on the operational time. If I take off the “schedule down” from the States to report in Report and statistics/State report, is there a way to generate the state report with the processing and Idle state as percentages of the operational time only ?
Thanks for ur help.

Simon

and if we consider that I adapted the state report manually on Excel, how can I display the recorder state graph of an object without the "schedule down" percentage ?

Simon

Hi Simon,

You need to calculate the percentage your self. (What I know).

You can use both summary report and state report to do the calculation, if
you use state report be sure you are not generating the report as percentage.
Have "Display values as percentage" unchecked, then the state reports will
show the the time for each state instead of percentage.
Now you can do your own calculation and only include what you want in
your calculations.

Lars-Olof

Simon,

To make a graph that shows you only the %'s that you want you have to have the underlying data only contain that information.
So if you have the data correct in excel you can use the excel graphs to show you the graph that you want. If you want to do it in Flexsim, the easiest solution (as far as I can think off at this moment):

If you go to explore tree of an object and you go to stats/state/state_profile you will find all the states that that object can have and every state that has a value > 0 will be displayed in the stategraph (the values are the number of seconds that an object has been in that state)
What you can do is to get the values of the schedule down state and ad those to the state that you want it to get (eg idle) You could do this for instance in the "On Run Stop" of the model triggers.

example code:
treenode Object= node( "/ObjectName", model());
treenode IdleNode = node( "/idle", state_profile(Object));
treenode ScheduleDownNode = node( "/scheduled_down", state_profile(Object));

setnodenum( IdleNode, getnodenum(IdleNode) + getnodenum(ScheduleDownNode));
setnodenum( ScheduleDownNode, 0);

Other solutions could be to get the state data and put it in a table or something and get the data from there by either creating your own statepie chart or using the userdefined options of the recorder, but I think this is more complex than the first option.

Steven

Thank you Lars-Olof and Steven for your help.

Simon

Hi,
where is the keyword state_profile documented?
Are there other keywords defined?
I looked through the documentation but could not find anything.

Nico,

Most of the nodes in the tree of an object can be directly reached via the so called attributes. If you look at the help, you find attribute hints. All these words give you pointers to nodes in the tree.
So for instance "getnodenum( spatialx(current))" will return the x position of current.

Steven

Hi,

I found the post http://www.flexsim.com/community/for...ight=bar+chart by Kris Geisberger very useful (a homemade state recorder).

I simply subtracted the state SCHEDULED_DOWN from the total time to make a recorder not taking the state SCHEDULED_DOWN into consideration (not sure this solution is very "clean", but it works).

Sorry, this is the right file