Determining equipment throughput and spare capacity characteristics of a service facility without direct observation

摘要

In an embodiment, a method comprises: retrieving, without direct observation, one or more activity measures recorded within a particular time period and associated with activities performed by a group of analyzers in a specimen analysis laboratory; transforming the activity measures into a count of activities performed by the group of analyzers within the particular time period; determining whether the count of activities for the group of analyzers is less than a peak value for the group of analyzers; in response to determining that the count of activities for the group of analyzers is less than a peak value: determining a spare capacity value for the group of analyzers for the particular time period as a difference between the peak value and the count of activities for the group of analyzers; causing generating a first display of the spare capacity value for the group of analyzers on a computer display unit.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
retrieving, without direct observation, one or more activity measures recorded within a particular time period and associated with activities performed by a group of devices in a service facility, wherein the recorded one or more activity measures represent an incomplete information about activities performed by the group of devices; transforming the one or more activity measures, the transforming comprising:
processing the incomplete information about the activities performed by the group of devices to obtain detailed information about the activities performed by the group of devices; andprocessing the detailed information about the activities performed by the group of devices to obtain a count of activities performed by the group of devices within the particular time period; determining whether the count of activities for the group of devices is less than a peak value for the group of devices; and in response to determining that the count of activities for the group of devices is less than a specified value for the group of devices:
determining a spare capacity value for the group of devices for the particular time period as a difference between the specified value and the count of activities for the group of devices; andcausing generating a first display of the spare capacity value for the group of devices on a computer display unit; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.