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Anonymous
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Convert data / Machine Utilisation

Hello,

 

On my other tables i have the data formatted as time so I can convert to total seconds and then divide by the seconds in the working day (In order to get Utilisastion)

  • Is there a way to convert the "Drilling Time" column to time in hh:mm:ss format. It currently is displaying as Text but the data appears in mm:ss e.g 02:37 is 2 minutes and 37 seconds
  • Is it possible to also convert the "production time"column to time in hh:mm:ss format. The whole number data is in seconds eg 10 is 00:00:10.   

 

I would ideally like to add the drilling time and production time together for each part.  Then divide by seconds in the day.

 

I may be going about this the wrong way so I am open to suggestions and new methods.

 

Thanks,

 

Drilling TimeDrilling TimeProduction TimeProduction Time

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v-xicai
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

You can create column or measure using DAX below. Then convert them to Time data type.

 

Column:

 

convert Drilling Time = FORMAT(CONCATENATE("00:",Table1[Drilling Time]),"hh:mm:ss")

 

convert Production Time = var d=IF(Table1[Production Time]=BLANK(),"00:00:00",IF(LEN(Table1[Production Time])=1,CONCATENATE("00:00:0",Table1[Production Time]),CONCATENATE("00:00:",Table1[Production Time])))

return FORMAT(d,"hh:mm:ss")

 

Measure:

 

convert Drilling Time measure = FORMAT(CONCATENATE("00:",MAX(Table1[Drilling Time])),"hh:mm:ss")

 

convert Production Time measure = var d=IF(MAX(Table1[Production Time])=BLANK(),"00:00:00",IF(LEN(MAX(Table1[Production Time]))=1,CONCATENATE("00:00:0",MAX(Table1[Production Time])),CONCATENATE("00:00:",MAX(Table1[Production Time]))))

return FORMAT(d,"hh:mm:ss")

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Best Regards,

Amy

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

Anonymous
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Thats a huge Help amy and nearly 100% there.

 

I have just found out that some of the data in the production time data is greater that 60 seconds so I am unable to convert to time.

Any suggestions @v-xicai ?

 

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some Drilling time is also greater than 60 minutes

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Thanks for your help thus far

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