Waiting for process end in queue

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Maravilhas asked May 16, '23 Carter Walch commented May 19, '23

Waiting for process end in queue

Good morning,

I have a project in which I have 2 machines and a queue. the item comes from the source and stays in the queue. depending on the label that the item has, he will choose a machine and afterwards he will go to the other machine. if it has label 2 it will go machine A and then B. but if it has label 1, it will go from B to A. since the machines have different process times, it gets stuck, since it is waiting for each machine to end their process and be released. How do I make it go to the queue again and wait for the next machine to get empty to then move to it, without causing any traffic?

Thank you in advance

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.0.16

queue processor state

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Carter Walch commented · May 19, 2023 at 04:43 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-05-16T11:54:37Z

Felix Möhlmann answered May 16, '23

A good way to do this (if you are using port connections) is to have a label on the item keep track of the process step the item is at. This can then be used to determine the port to which the item should be send in both the queue and the processors.

MachineByStep_fm.fsm

machinebystep-fm.fsm (27.4 KiB)

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