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Block Throughput

The Block Throughput worksheet displays the throughput for each block during the simulation time. This worksheet will appear in the Simulation Results Explorer only if you selected to run a throughput simulation on the Analysis Settings page of the diagram control panel.

• Block Name (Diagram): The name of each block in the diagram.

• Throughput: The total number of units that were processed/produced by each block during the simulation.

• Excess Capacity: The additional number of units each block could have processed/produced during the simulation.

• Backlog: The total number of backlogged units (i.e., units waiting to be processed/produced) for each block at the end of the simulation. This is based on whether the block can accept a backlog and how the backlog units were allocated, as specified in the Block Properties window.

• Backlog Processed: The total number of units that were backlogged but eventually processed/produced by each block during the simulation.

• Excess Backlog: The number of backlogged units that were rejected (i.e., not processed/produced) by each block during the simulation. Backlogged units will be rejected if the block has a limited backlog (i.e., a limit to the number of units that can be stored in the backlog).

• Uptime Utilization: The percent of units the block actually produced/processed of what it could have processed/produced while it was up during the simulation. (i.e., the ratio of the block throughput and the block uptime capacity.)

• TOCB: The Throughput Opportunity Cost for Block. This is the portion contribution of this block to the total opportunity costs incurred due to this block causing a system failure. This is calculated by multiplying the total system opportunity costs (shown in the System Costs worksheet) by the block DTCI (shown in the Block Summary worksheet). Note that this field was revised and will show these results starting in version 9.0.14.