Cycle Time

Cycle Time

Cycle time measures the time is a unit spends in a station. In a manufacturing setting, when robot station is often manipulating a product of some sort, the robot station is informing Autumn Labs (through the SDK) when the unit is tracked in and tracked out of the station. These markers are then used to calculate how long a unit of certain ID has spent in the station.

The cycle time is the difference between the time the unit is tracked in and the time the unit is tracked out.

$$\text{Cycle Time} = {T_{\text{tracked out}}} - {T_{\text{tracked in}}}$$

Examples

Example 1: Simple

In this example, we'll compute cycle time for one station with a simple unit flow. We'll explore how flows with different retry policies will affect the numbers.

Station 1 Unit Flow:

$$\text{Cycle Time}_{\text{Unit 1}} = 01:24:02 - 01:23:00 = 1 \text{ min} \text{ } 2 \text{ sec}$$ $$\text{Cycle Time}_{\text{Unit 2}} = 01:25:37 - 01:24:30 = 1 \text{ min} \text{ } 7 \text{ sec}$$