periodic release of items in a queue

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Patrick Rawald asked Feb 14, '17 Cameron Pluim answered Feb 14, '17

periodic release of items in a queue

I am a beginner in FlexSim and i have a problem with releasing items from one queue to another in a periodic intervall. In my model all items have are collected in the queue and i want to release all of them at a specific time (1440) to the next queue. I thought about doing this by the "do not release item" statement in the first queue. Does anybody know how to tackle such a task?

Thank you in advance.

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.0.2

item release order release

Answer 1 · 2017-02-14T13:50:58Z

Cameron Pluim answered Feb 14, '17

Assuming you always want to release the items at set intervals, your best bet would probably be to close the output ports on reset, and use a User Event at the set times to open the port back up again.

Then when the queue is empty, close the output part again until the next release time.

See the attached model for an example:

releaseatacertaintime.fsm

releaseatacertaintime.fsm (14.2 KiB)

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