Query Slot Items using Array label

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Roi Sánchez asked May 5, '20 Benjamin W2 commented May 18, '20

Query Slot Items using Array label

Hi everyone,

We are dealing with a large warehousing model in which virtualizing items has to be a must. We realized that querying slot item array labels seems not be working when the virtualize option is checked.

The issue we are experimenting comes, for instance, when trying to compare a 'reference' label of a multireference pallet (array label) with another array.

Does anyone come up with a solution to this?

Roi.

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.1

flexsim 20.1.1

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Benjamin W2 commented · May 18, 2020 at 05:22 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-05-06T03:09:10Z

Joerg Vogel answered May 6, '20 Joerg Vogel edited May 6, '20

Maybe you think about the idea to virtualize the Items in the container item when a pallet enters the warehouse. I mean you assign a slot for the items on the pallet instead of the pallet itself. And you keep the information of the pallet as a label at all items. You destroy a middle node in a tree structure that is always only one node. Then if you are querying your pallet content, the content is in storage system and you can order the content by the label value of the pallet ID to identify the pallet.

In the case where you release the pallet, you release all storage items with the same pallet label ID and you rebuild the pallet and the structure of the pallet on exit or on load.

If you have doubts how to involve a taskexecuter in this, you let only one item of the pallet be transported by the taskexecuter and you transfers the nodes of the other items when the loading begins or ends.

If the content on the pallet is already only an array then you assign a slot for each element of the array a slot and keep the structure as labels at the element item. I know the warehouse contains all parts of all pallets as single virtualized items, but that is how a data warehouse should work. You have all data in one system, which you can query.

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