How can I create a Task sequence for a task executor?

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Thoams G asked Dec 6, '18 Patrick Cloutier commented Dec 13, '18

How can I create a Task sequence for a task executor?

Hello dear Flexsim Community

I am stuck in a Problem regarding my FlexSim Simulation model of an Industrial Washing Plant.

Brief description of the original Problem:
After the delivery of different items, they have to be grouped according to their item type. E.g. 1.000 sheets have to be bundled into groups of 62, whereas the 10.000 shirts are grouped into sets of 1.000. For this grouping of items only one operator is available and he should always make 5 groups of one item, then go to the next. This process should loop until everything is grouped. If, for example, there are only 160 sheets left, he should make 3 sets (1.+2. 62 and the 3rd with the remaining 36).

I tried everything i could think of, but now I find myself at this dead end. I really appreciate any help you could give me.

Thank you in advance,

Thomas

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Answer 1 · 2018-12-06T18:07:42Z

Joshua S answered Dec 6, '18 Patrick Cloutier commented Dec 13, '18

I would consider using Lists in process flow. Pull from list activities can pull a specific amount, or will pull a remaining amount. If you work with process flow, i would suggest not using a combiner object, but have a regular queue which has a limit of 1, then add a pallet, then tell your operator to move the 62 sheet to the pallet in the queue. Combiners get tricky when changing the amount of items you are batching. In process flow you can move the pallet full of sheets to the next queue.

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Thoams G commented · Dec 07, 2018 at 07:31 AM

I tried with process flow, but I am not familiar with it. Can you point me in a direction of a tutorial or sample model, where l could see the Pull from list applied? I tried to find one but I did not find one.

The Combiner is there because, otherwise I would have another Problem with the max content of the washing process, which has to be updated for the different items. A workaround in order to bypass my lack of FlexSim knowledge.

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Patrick Cloutier Thoams G commented · Dec 13, 2018 at 01:57 AM

Thoams, I myself postponed using ProcessFlow for a while until I decided to learn it. I did the tutorials and then forced myself to use it. It's amazing. It reduced my modeling time by half and now I have a lot less coding to do. You should really take the time to learn it.

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Joshua S Thoams G commented · Dec 07, 2018 at 10:16 PM

The tutorials are found in the user manual. Process flow allows better customization of your process that would otherwise have to be lines and lines of code.

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