Packing four boxes in one pallet?

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Rambabu asked Oct 27, '23 Jason Lightfoot answered Oct 27, '23

Packing four boxes in one pallet?

Hi all,

Today I have got one query regarding packing output. Actually we know source output gives one item like a Box or pallet or cylinder etc. But I need one packed output from source like(Four boxes packed in one pallet) is there any possibility to get the output ???

Thankyou

packing model.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.1.3

source output packing packing method

packing-model.fsm (38.6 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2023-10-27T14:08:19Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Oct 27, '23

Here's a code snippet you can put on a pallet source's creation trigger:

string fiName="Box";
int numItems=4;
Object flowitem=Model.find("Tools/FlowItemBin/"+fiName).first;
Object packedItem;
for (int n=numItems;n>0;n--) {
    packedItem=flowitem.copy(model());
    moveobject(packedItem,item);
}

packing-model_jl.fsm

packing-model-jl.fsm (37.9 KiB)

Answer 2 · 2023-10-27T05:47:31Z

Joerg Vogel answered Oct 27, '23 Joerg Vogel commented Oct 27, '23

You can create or move such a designed flow item into flowitem bin library like tree.
you can replace a 3D source by a queue and transfer a creation process into process flow.

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Rambabu commented · Oct 27, 2023 at 06:01 AM

I did not get what you mean by 3D source by a queue and transfer a creation process into process flow

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Joerg Vogel Rambabu commented · Oct 27, 2023 at 06:09 AM

@Rambabu, a process flow can create items anywhere in a model. Sometimes you need a centralized object that behaves like a source in a 3D model, but it is not actually a source. Then you can replace a source by a queue object and let a process flow logic unit do all necessary steps of creating items in a model. Lastly you move such items into your queue to let them be distributed by this queue.

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