Operator process flow

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Josiah S2 asked Jun 30, '22 Josiah S2 commented Jun 30, '22

Operator process flow

I would like to see an example solution to a problem I've been having. There are 2 operators and one conveyor, one operator is at the beginning doing 2 processes and passing the product to the conveyor to be brought to the 2nd operator, which will preform the last processing of said product.

first two processes take 10s each and the last takes 30s. after a while the conveyor will become full because operator #1's task is quicker and #2 op can't keep up. I would like to have the 1st op to go help #2 process the WIP on the line once he has [A: either reached a sufficient amount of product on the line] or [B: a label associated with the product changes and causes the 1st op to help the 2nd]

The product's process time should be reduced due to there being 2 operators processing it at one time. NOTE: the conveyor is transport for everything but from and to the processor/machine.

I've been having great difficulty getting the #1 op to go help and change ProcessTime at the same time.

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.1.2

operator task

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Answer 1 · 2022-06-30T17:05:20Z

Jonah K answered Jun 30, '22 Josiah S2 commented Jun 30, '22

Here's an example solution:

ProcessHelper.fsm

This model uses process flow to wait until the conveyor has content of 10 boxes, then creates a task sequence for Operator1. He travels to Processor2, sets the process time to 15 seconds, waits, then leaves, setting it back to 30 seconds.

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Josiah S2 commented · Jun 30, 2022 at 05:46 PM

That works! thank you

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