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please how can we simulate a pineapple pack-house.Thank you.

We are building a simulation on the operational process of a pineapple pack-house but we are encountering several difficulties due to the little knowledge we have in Flexsim.The problems are listed below:

1) The pack-house packs 15000 pineapples a day. How do we simulate baskets which contain 10 pineapples each, where an operator picks the basket and pours the pineapples in a processor which can process 600 pineapples at a time?

2) How do we simulate a mergesort which serves as a weighing machine with 7 outlets?

OUTLET 1 (conveyor) =takes pineapples with weight 1.2 kilogram

OUTLET 2 (conveyor) = takes pineapples with weight 1.4kilogram

OUTLET 3 (conveyor) =takes pineapples with weight 1.45 kilogram

OUTLET 4 (conveyor) = takes pineapples with weight 1.6 kilogram

OUTLET 5 (conveyor) =takes pineapples with weight 1.7 kilogram

OUTLET 6 (conveyor) = takes pineapples with weight 1.9 kilogram

OUTLET 7 (sink) = takes pineapples which did not qualify for the weights mentioned above which is 1,500 pineapples

3) Each of the 6 conveyors has an operator, a combiner and queue. The role of each operator is to pick 20 boxes at a time from a different queue onto its queue and then pick the boxes one after the other onto the combiner where it fills the boxes with pineapples.

OPERATOR at OUTLET 1 (conveyor) = will have to pack 12 pineapples into each box

OPERATOR at OUTLET 2 (conveyor) = will have to pack 10 pineapples into each box

OPERATOR at OUTLET 3 (conveyor) = will have to pack 9 pineapples into each box

OPERATOR at OUTLET 4 (conveyor) = will have to pack 8 pineapples into each box

OPERATOR at OUTLET 5 (conveyor) = will have to pack 7 pineapples into each box

OPERATOR at OUTLET 6 (conveyor) = will have to pack 6 pineapples into each box

4) After arranging pineapples into boxes the operator will have to carry it onto a different conveyor. A different operator then labels each pineapple in each box for all boxes.

5) A different operator is also responsible for palletization who picks a pallet and packs 80 boxes on each pallet.

6) A different operator stamps all the 80 boxes packed on each pallet.

7) A TaskExecuter then carries each palletized cargo to a processor for weight checking and then to a sink. We are expecting your valuable suggestions. Thank you very much.

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Ben Wilson answered

Hi @Asante Adwoa Asantewaa, and welcome to the FlexSim Answers community!

I'd like to share some tips to help you out as you start this journey with Answers:

Please see the community best practices here.

In order to get the most from the community, you should simplify your request into several smaller requests. Each question deserves its own separate post, focusing on a single issue. This will help others who need to use a mergesort, but aren't interested in pineapples, for instance.

If you want help with an entire model, FlexSim US, as well as many of our worldwide partners offer consulting services. Feel free to contact your local distributor if you'd like to arrange a discussion along those lines.

I'll close this particular question now. Please post separate, single-topic questions. Be general where you can. Include sample models to show what one thing you are trying to accomplish, and follow the other tips and advice in the best practices.

Thanks for joining us at Answers!

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