Stopping and resuming items in stations in conveyors

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Sandeep Kumar I asked Jul 10, '18 Sandeep Kumar I commented Jul 10, '18

Stopping and resuming items in stations in conveyors

In the sample model attached, I am trying to send object from first station to second station on the conveyor, only when the second station gets empty.

I have defined a process flow accordingly and set conditions using subnodes.length command. But the logic doesn't seem to work the way I wanted it to. Could you help me in this?

conveyor-stations.jpg conveyor-stations.fsm

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FlexSim 18.1.2

process flow conveyors stop object resume object

conveyor-stations.jpg (41.4 KiB)

conveyor-stations.fsm (32.7 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2018-07-10T15:30:47Z

Joshua S answered Jul 10, '18 Sandeep Kumar I commented Jul 10, '18

This model should do what you are looking for. Also for referencing subnodes, when an item arrives at a station, it doesn't become a node under it, the item is still a subnode of the conveyor.12978-conveyor-stations.fsm

12978-conveyor-stations.fsm (34.3 KiB)

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Sandeep Kumar I commented · Jul 10, 2018 at 03:51 PM

@Joshua. Perfect. Thank you.

I understand now what sub nodes refer to in stations.

Could you tell me what this ''attrs'' means in your command?

model().find("Station10").as(Object).attrs.state_current.value

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Joshua S Sandeep Kumar I commented · Jul 10, 2018 at 03:57 PM

attrs is short for attributes. There is a whole list of attrs values that you can pull from or set.

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Sandeep Kumar I Joshua S commented · Jul 10, 2018 at 07:35 PM

@Joshua S Thanks for sharing.

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