total time boxes are in the model

Hello everyone,

I have the following question: if you have a traject that starts with a lot of sources (each source gives an item a type using "setitemtype" ), and ends with one or more sinks, is it possible to monitor and table the time each box spends in the whole traject?

the way I think it is possible is to register all the starting times in different general tables, one table for each source, and monitor the end times in that same table. But since I have about 80 sources, this would take a lot of work and memory. Is there an easier way?

thank you very much!

First is it necessary to have 80 sources? If you use the exittrigger in combination with an arrival pattern you can let the source generate any product with any itemtype you want!

Then if you do need the 80 sources, use 1 table with 80 columns one for every source.

Use the output of the source (getoutput) to act as a row counter and set this rowcounter on the product with a label and do the same with the source nr it came from. Then at the sink use time() - getcreationtime(item) to get the stay time and use the labels of the source nr and the row nr to write that time to the table.

At the end export the table to excel for further analysis (can even be done automatically)

Steven