MergeController

Question

question

Omar Aguilera Rico asked Apr 10, '18 Emily Hardy edited May 18, '18

MergeController

I'm trying to make five pieces come together in the conveyor and only release the five pieces, the first one that gets together releases the pieces. I'm thinking that this can be done with the MergeController only that I have not been able to do it. Can you tell me if the easy way is to do it over there? model.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 18.0.4

combiner conveyors merge controller

model.fsm (162.9 KiB)

· 3

David Seo commented · Apr 13, 2018 at 06:25 AM

eflexsim-projectsgpflexsim-forum-exer-models11404.fsm

@Omar Aguilera Rico

You should connect exactly the conveyors using snap On when drag and drop the conveyors.

1 ·

eflexsim-projectsgpflexsim-forum-exer-models11404.fsm (49.8 KiB)

Omar Aguilera Rico David Seo commented · Apr 13, 2018 at 02:43 PM

Thanks for the support! I already understood why it does not work for me.

0 ·

Jeff Nordgren Omar Aguilera Rico commented · Apr 13, 2018 at 06:03 PM

@Omar Aguilera Rico,

What solution did you come up with? I'm curious as to how you handled it.

Thanks.

0 ·

Answer 1 · 2018-04-13T18:02:19Z

Phil BoBo answered Apr 13, '18 Phil BoBo edited Apr 13, '18

You can use Area Restriction pick options to hold the 6th item from moving until the 5th item has cleared. If the 6th item hasn't arrived at the end of the conveyor by the time the last item in the slug has cleared, then it won't go out with that slug.

merge-controller.fsm

You can also use the MergeController's lane clear table to minimize the gap between the slugs:

merge-controller-lane-clear-table.fsm

mergecontroller2.gif (20.4 MiB)

lane-clear-table.gif (17.2 MiB)

merge-controller.fsm (56.6 KiB)

merge-controller-lane-clear-table.fsm (58.3 KiB)