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Set input interval processor (bottle filling machine)

Hello,


Situation:
I want to simulate a bottle filling machine.
The machine has 100 filling valves (for each bottle). -> So I set the max content on 100.
The process for filling one bottle should take 20 seconds. -> I set the process time on 20 seconds.
The filling machine is taking the bottles from a queue, which is always completly filled up.


Problem:
Now I want the filling machine to take up a new bottle whenever one bottle left the machine. (One bottle after another) So the average time between two bottles getting taken up should be 0.2 seconds. How can I set this interval? I tried to set the setup time on 0.2 seconds, but this doesn´t work.


Can you help me with this problem?


Kind regards,


Julius

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Sebastián Cañas avatar image Sebastián Cañas commented ·
@JulHa ,

Is it possible for you to share the model?

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Here is the file. It´s about the second processor called "filling machine".

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Hey @JulHa ,

I think that a logic that controls de input of the filling machine could work in this case:

  1. I create a Trigger On Entry in the Filling Machine object that close the input when the content of the object is equal to the max content property.
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  3. Then I created a Process Flow logic that creates a token when the Filling Machine is ready to send a bottle downstream, delays the token 0.2 and finally opens again the input of the filling machine. This way is how you could represent that delay.

If you don't want to use Process Flow, then you can create another Trigger On Exit and open the input but you should modify the code and add an await statement before the code that controls the port.

Hope this helps!

brauerei-6-sc.fsm


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Thank you for your help! But it´s still not working the way I would like it.

When it takes up one bottle every 0.2 seconds after 20 seconds the filling machine has to be completly full. And in exactly this moment the first picked up bottle has finished it´s process-time of 20 seconds and has to leave the machine. So another bottle can be picked up. (It´s supposed to flow continuesly.)


In this model it´s still not the case. The machine is pickung up 100 bottles in 10 seconds. So each after every 0.1 second. So the "flow" I want is not simulated.


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