How to change the order of sorting in a Queue

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Ankith T asked Jun 30, '23 Regan Blackett commented Jun 30, '23

How to change the order of sorting in a Queue

I would like to stack the boxes on a queue vertically. But when ever a new box enters the queue, the box should go to bottom on the list. In another words, boxes should be stacked in a sequence how they entered.

traditionally when ever a new box enter the queue and if the queue is stacking vertically, the top box will be the latest box that entered as shown in the figure below.

But in my case i would to reverse the order as shown below. when second box enters the queue, it has to go below the 1st box, when 3 enters the queue, it has to be below the 2nd entered box and so on.

is there a way that we can sort the items entering in Queue in this way, or is there any other object like rack or anything can make this happen?

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.10

queue rack cranes sort

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Answer 1 · 2023-06-30T19:58:34Z

Regan Blackett answered Jun 30, '23 Regan Blackett commented Jun 30, '23

The Queue object can handle this, you just need a label on the Flowitems that has a rank for a value, then in the OnEntry trigger of the Queue you can use a drop down menu option that lets you sort the Queue using the Flowitem's label. The items' rank could be assigned by using the preceding object's output statistic with the expression:

current.stats.output.value

Edit to upload a sample model:SortExample.fsm

sortexample.fsm (28.3 KiB)

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Ankith T commented · Jun 30, 2023 at 08:33 PM

i am using 21.1.5 version flexsim, can you upload the flexsim file which is accessible for my version

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Regan Blackett ♦ Ankith T commented · Jun 30, 2023 at 08:42 PM

SortExample21.fsm

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sortexample21.fsm (26.1 KiB)

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