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.
