How to pick boxes from pallet on rack + other problems

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Deuzel asked Apr 25, '24 Felix Möhlmann answered Apr 26, '24

How to pick boxes from pallet on rack + other problems

Hello everyone!

First of all, thank you in advance for your responses! I know there are similar topics on the forum but I can't solve my various problems:

1- Visual problem: I've created a pallet arrival categorized by "Men", "Women", and "Children" with 20 boxes on each pallet. These boxes also have a category. How can I organize them properly in the racks (as we can see the boxes passing through the rack)?

(On the photo, we can see the pallet passing through the rack and the boxes being picked from each pallet instead of emptying one pallet first.)

2- Process Flow problem: An operator with a roll retrieves boxes one by one according to customer orders. I can't figure out how to ensure that each box is taken from one pallet at a time. Additionally, I remove the pallet from my list and not the box. How can I do this?

3- Process Flow problem: How can I create an event that summons foklift to remove empty pallets from a rack?

Thank you very much for your help :) !

test2.fsm Roll.skp

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.1.3

process flow pallets subnodes pick boxes

test2.fsm (195.3 KiB)

roll.skp (101.0 KiB)

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Answer 1 · 2024-04-26T07:53:27Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Apr 26, '24

The automatic resizing of the pallet bounding box to encompass loaded items is only part of the "Pallet Stacking" stacking method. Without it only the size of the pallet itself is taken into account when stacking them or assigning them to a slot.

Since you changed to "Layer Stacking", you'd need to implement this logic there yourself. See changes to line 27, line 40 and the line 46+ in the stacking code of the attached model.

layer-stacking-size-adjustment-fm.fsm

layer-stacking-size-adjustment-fm.fsm (99.2 KiB)

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