How to add area restriction on my conveyor system?

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Gideon asked Nov 8, '18 Sebastian Hemmann answered Nov 8, '18

How to add area restriction on my conveyor system?

Thank you for attending my question.

1. I was trying to add area restriction on my conveyor system to prevent the items from colliding to each other. However, errors shown and bottlenecks happen.

2. Besides, how to get the items entering each of the machines from processors (1 to 6) to processors (7 to 10)?

Thank you

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.1.6

conveyor system

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Answer 1 · 2018-11-08T07:53:10Z

Sebastian Hemmann answered Nov 8, '18 Gideon commented Nov 8, '18

Hi, your errors show because you told the Decision Points to make Items enter an Area and on another point you tell it to leave the area. So only one Item is allowed to be in the Area.

And because it is dynamic, you only say the object that is connected via A connection (OutObject) is the Area Owner. But you forgot one connection!

This causes the first errors.

The Bottlenecks appear, because the area is cleared as soon as the item enters the DP (Area Owner). But for your machines Processor 4,5 and 6 this can never happen, because the DP is on the wrong point of the Conveyor!

The second bunch of errors you get, because you told the DP infront of Processor 7,8,9 and 10 the items have to exit an area, but they never enter any area.

There is a complete section about conveyors in the User Manual!

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