Building a conveyor with carriers

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Adil M asked May 1, '24 Felix Möhlmann answered May 2, '24

Building a conveyor with carriers

Hi,

I would like to build a conveyor with a carrier similar to the model I've attached which I found on one of the answers forum. But I don't see that type of conveyor available in the default conveyors library in Flexsim. I tried mimicking the conveyor settings in my model but could not get packages to be on a carrier as in the model I've attached. Would I need to download any additional library for this or would it be possible for me to get a similar result using the default options within the existing library. entryspacefix.fsm

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FlexSim 24.0.2

conveyor carriers cross belt sorter

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Joerg Vogel commented · May 01 at 11:02 PM

Conveyor types are a deprecated feature. They aren’t existing anymore.

If you load an old model, they show up. That is all.
Carriers are by default container items. You populate a conveyor system with them and then you put and drag items from them while they move continuously on your conveyor.

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Answer 1 · 2024-05-02T11:48:44Z

Felix Möhlmann answered May 2, '24

The model you attached uses the "Power and Free" mode which you can activate in the conveyor properties. The major difference (as far as I see it) between this system and carrier items, is that carrier items could individually stop and as such accumulate or separate along the length of the conveyor. Whereas, as the name of the option suggests, the power and free mode has fixed intervals.

As Jörg said, you can use actual items as carriers, but you need to take the resulting warmup period into account, until the conveyor system is saturated.

A relatively easy way to load items onto such carriers is to push them to a list. A carrier arriving at a DP/Station/PE can then pull one or more items off the list.

In the attached model I demonstrate this in two modes. One where the carrier items are in constant motion and one where they wait until they can load an item.

conveyor-carriers-fm.fsm

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conveyor-carriers-fm.fsm (49.3 KiB)

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