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Is there a way to stop the tokens in the process flow?

I have an process flow, where there are more than 15 machines each having its own process flow, which includes subflow for common operations. I want to stop the tokens in the activity they are, when a breakdown occurs and then resume them once the breakdown is taken care of.

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@Pinakin K, Depending on your operation, the "Wait for Event" activity in process flow will stop tokens either before they need to be processed, or prevents them from moving on.

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This might be a better representation of what you are looking for. It saves the state of the tokens when the breakdown occurs, puts them in a holding area, then when the machine is fixed, puts the tokens back.save-token-state.fsm

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I want to stop the token in the delay activity. EX. if the token is in the delay activity and before it delay is completed, a breakdown occurs. The token should stop at the delay and should only resume when the breakdown is taken care of

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save-token-state-2.fsm

Thank you!

I have attached a model with some addition to your model for clear view.

Sequence of machines is M1, M2,M3 & M4. if M1 stops M2, M3 ,M4 should continue, but if M4 stops M3, M2, M1 should also stop.

Also the breakdown cannot be determined, it would depend on the percentage like 70% it will occur 2 times, 20 % it will occur 3 times and 10% it will occur 4 times.

The break down occurs for each machine discretely and at different times I am using a subflows, as each machine does same set of operations, but with different material with same delay time.

There are other things aslo in the subflow, but for now i just included the delay to show different operations.

How to include all of this in the breakdown flow?

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