Hey guys
I'm trying to model a system where I have barge arrivals, a berth, a loading arm, and two tanks. Barges can load 3 types of products, tank 1, tank 2 and a mixture of both tanks. Is it possible to replicate this system in flexSim with this infrastructure I mentioned? I'm forwarding the model that I tried to make but couldn't. Thank you for your help in advanceTeste_Mistura.fsm
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Hi @Kelvin Barbosa,
Something went wrong in the query acquiring the loading arm. It seems like Product is a protected keyword and there wasn't a label on the loading arm. I changed the query to this:
To get this working I changed the product type of the FlowPump to Product 2. This is equal to the first assigned value for the label Product. So what you should change in the model, is that the FlowPump gets the correct product type.
Hope this helps!
Could you give me a suggestion on how I can make my loading arm dynamic according to the barge's programming?
Could you specify how you would like to control loading arms? You have a require resource activity that claims a loading arm based on a certain query. I think it will mostly be changing that query depending on what you need.
I would like to control the loading arm according to the barge's programming. Example: It can load product 1 or product 2 or product 3 which is a mixture of the 2 tanks.
Hello, Kelvin,
To solve your question, you need to select the location where the item is leaving (you will be using the arm) and select the "Use transport" option in Output, as shown in figure 1 attached. By doing this process at all the material exit points that require the arm, it will transport all the items as requested. It's worth remembering that you have to set a condition for the transport, Flexsim's default is to transport what arrived first.
One way of setting up the flow in question is to use the queues as tanks (tank 1, tank 2 and mix), and for mixing I used the combiner in the join option, which joins the two products and returns a single output product, as shown in figure 2.
Figure 1
Figure 2
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