Output port by label?

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Suné JVR2 asked May 29, '21 Eric M commented Jun 7, '21

Output port by label?

Good Day

I have a scenario where a processor called a cooling station and it has four different products. I created a label of the flow item called "Type of Product" and the string values are "Bread", "Cakes", "Doughnuts" and "Muffins". From the cooling station the products should split into two queues. The "Bread" needs to go to one queue and the remaining three to another but the remaining three products goes to the same queue as the bread downstream after they went through other processes. The processes looks like this:

BREAD

- cooling station

- finished baked goods queue

CAKES, DOUGHNUTS AND MUFFINS

- cooling station

- icing station queue

- icing station

-finished baked goods queue

Is there a way to achieve this?

I attached my model and the accompanying OFD drawing.

Kind regards

Suné

Bakery Problem.fsm Bakery Problem OFD.pdf

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.0.10

labels flexsim 20.0.10 ports by label

bakery-problem.fsm (218.4 KiB)

bakery-problem-ofd.pdf (551.0 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · May 29, 2021 at 11:40 PM

First of all, please replace string labels by numbers. This is much easier than strings to handle. Then you can divert items by case.

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Suné JVR2 Joerg Vogel commented · May 30, 2021 at 08:13 PM

The unspoken assignment is that we need to use string labels specifically.

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Eric M commented · Jun 07, 2021 at 02:59 PM

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Answer 1 · 2021-05-30T22:05:44Z

Joerg Vogel answered May 30, '21

If you must use string labels, then translate them by an index of a string array.

array myProducts = [“BREAD”,”CAKES”,”DOUGHNUTS”,”MUFFINS“];
int index = myProducts.indexOf(item.labels[“Type of Product”]);

Then you can parse index into port by case property.

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