question

Brad Champeau asked Apr 24, '17 Sam Stubbs edited Apr 25, '17

How do I control a motor on a conveyor?

I have a conveyor 1, which is upstream of conveyor 5. I only want conveyor 1 to run if conveyor 5 is running. I have a motor connected to each conveyor. How do I set up the logic?

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.1.0

conveyor motor

Sam Stubbs answered Apr 25, '17 Sam Stubbs edited Apr 25, '17

You can connect a motor to both of them (holding the 'a' key and dragging a connection), and instead of calling stop object on Conveyor 5, whenever you stop conveyor 5 call stopobject on the motor instead.

Here is a simple example:

motorexample.fsm

motorexample.fsm (19.4 KiB)