Detecting Bottleneck Charts

You can visualize the average bottleneck chart along with dynamic updates during the simulation. Bottleneck is a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is limited by a single or set of sub-system components.

  1. Select Detect Bottlenecks check box in the Analysis Options tab of the Production System Simulation Options dialog box.

    See Analysis Options

  2. Select a system and click Play in the PLM Compass to start simulation.

    The System Performance Monitor appears.

  3. Click System Performance Monitor after or during simulation.

    The System Performance Monitor dialog box appears.

  4. Click Bottleneck Viewer tab in the System Performance Monitor dialog box.

    The Average Bottleneck chart appears.

  5. Place pointer over the bar chart in the Average Bottleneck chart.

    The system name, time, and percentage of time with respect to simulation time is shown as tool tip.

  6. Select the bottleneck time bar in the graph to highlight the corresponding system tile in the authoring window.