Activity working time

The average activity working time is the assumed time that is taken to run an activity without interruptions.

The value of activity working time is always less than or equal to the relative service time. Relative service time is the time that is taken to run an activity that includes interruptions.

Illustration of activity working time

The activity working time varies depending on the manual or robotic execution of the activity. The service time of a robot is equal to its working time, as no interruptions occur during the robotic activities.

Because working time for an activity might vary over time, you can define the date until which the specified working time must be applied to the activity.

From release 1.14.1, you can perform the following tasks in the IBM Process Mining application:

  • Map activity working time for each activity when creating a process in IBM Process Mining application. For more information on mapping the fields and creating a process, see Creating a process-mining project.

  • Use the Activity working time tab in the Cost settings tab of Data & Settings to add a default value for activity working time.

  • Load default Activity working time values from the default process.

Using the Activity working time page

On the Activity working time page, you can perform the following tasks:

Adding activity working time

  1. Open a project.

  2. Go to Data & Settings > Cost Settings > Activity working time.

  3. Click Add default activity working time.

  4. In the Add default activity working time dialog, do the following steps:

    a. In the Activity field, select the activity for which you want to add a value.

    b. In the Value field, define the value of working time for this activity.

    The maximum value that you can define in the Hours field is 23. Likewise, the maximum value that you can set in the Minutes field is 59.

    c. In the Type field, select the activity type as Automatic, Manual, or Any.

    d. In the End date field, select the date which the system must consider the end of the activity working time.

  5. Click Add and apply your changes.

Editing an activity working time value

  1. Open a project.
  2. Go to Data & Settings > Cost Settings > Activity working time.
  3. Click Edit next to the activity that you want to edit.
  4. In the Edit default activity working time dialog, update the values.

In the Edit default activity working time dialog, you can update only the Value, Type, and End Date. You cannot change the activity.

  1. Save and apply your changes.

Defining a default working time for all activities

  1. Open a project.

  2. Go to Data & Settings > Cost Settings > Activity working time.

  3. Click Edit next to the default activity working time.

  4. In the Edit default activity working time dialog, do the following steps:

    a. In the Value field, define the value of working time for this activity.

    The maximum value that you can define in the Hours field is 23. Likewise, the maximum value that you can set in the Minutes field is 59.

    b. In the Type field, select the type as Automatic, Manual, or Any.

    c. In the End date field, select the date which the system must consider the end of the activity working time.

  5. Save and apply your changes.

Deleting an activity working time value

  1. Open a project.
  2. Go to Data & Settings > Cost Settings > Activity working time.
  3. Click Delete next to the activity working time that you want to delete.
  4. Confirm that you want to delete this activity working time.
  5. Apply your changes.

Editing the data source mapping

You can edit the data mapping from the Activity working time page, if you need to change how the activity working time was mapped.

  1. In the Activity working time page, click the information button next to the message that informs whether you mapped activity working time in your project.
  2. Click Edit data mapping.
  3. In the Create a process-mining project dialog, make the necessary changes.
  4. Save your changes.