Drive-In Rack Padding

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Maryam H2 asked Sep 15, '23 Jeanette F commented Sep 15, '23

Drive-In Rack Padding

Hi there,

I'm having trouble with adding padding to drive-in racks to stop operators from placing items at that level, especially when they're working from a process flow. I don't want to make that level an unstorable slot because it makes it disappear visually.

Please see the model below.

storage-model-revised_3.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.2.0

slot drive-in rack padding

storage-model-revised-3.fsm (58.5 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2023-09-15T18:59:26Z

Jeanette F answered Sep 15, '23 Jeanette F commented Sep 15, '23

Hello @Maryam H2,

You need to select for the rack to allow placement only where there is space. One thing I noticed is that once you do that your box was too large to fit in the slots. I shrunk it in the x and it fits in the slots that have space for it. so the slots with the padding don't get filled.

storage-model-revised-3_1.fsm

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Maryam H2 commented · Sep 15, 2023 at 07:19 PM

@Jeanette F I see, you're right. What about this version when we use the storage system and the paint slot function to assign slots to boxes? Why doesn't this one work?

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Jeanette F ♦♦ Maryam H2 commented · Sep 15, 2023 at 07:32 PM

So in your first model the rack was finding the slots for the items and in your recent model the process flow activity is finding the slots. I added to the query to check for space and it works

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