how to assign labels via round robin on conveyor

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Dhuey C asked Jun 10, '19 Joseph Gillespie commented Jun 17, '19

how to assign labels via round robin on conveyor

round-robin-labels.fsm in the attached model the objects travel on one conveyor and processed by one of two processors, in an alternating fashion. 1, 2, 1, 2 etc... I am trying to assign a label at a decision point in the conveyor, but there is no round robin statistical distribution. Any suggestions?

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FlexSim 19.1.0

conveyor label assignment round robin

round-robin-labels.fsm (34.8 KiB)

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Joseph Gillespie commented · Jun 17, 2019 at 04:46 PM

@Dhuey C

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Answer 1 · 2019-06-10T22:18:57Z

Joseph Gillespie answered Jun 10, '19

@Dhuey C

There is a way to do this in the code like so:

For an explanation of how this code works, see the bottom answer to this question: Can anyone suggest an equivalent to a "next of" or round robin distribution for FlexSim?

Alternatively, if you don't have to have your processors on the same conveyor, you could split your conveyor and use a decide point to send items to each processor using "Round Robin", like this:

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