Joining Items Inside of a Combiner

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Mia L asked Jun 17, '20 Benjamin W2 commented Jun 17, '20

Joining Items Inside of a Combiner

I would like to change the properties of my combiner to join all 20 items that are batched from my queue into one item (which represents all 20) and then move them onto the processor. When I use the Join property in the combiner though, it does not allow me to enter the quantity. How can this be fixed?

Combiner Standard Logic.fsm

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FlexSim 19.2.4

combiner flexsim 19.2.4 join

combiner-standard-logic.fsm (39.2 KiB)

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Answer 1 · 2020-06-17T14:20:22Z

Benjamin W2 answered Jun 17, '20 Benjamin W2 commented Jun 17, '20

Hi @Mia L,

One key aspect about the combiner's join feature is that it requires 2 inputs. The first input is what the item will be once has been combined. The second input is how many items are needed per one item from the first input.

For example, I have "Source1" creating a sphere, and sending it to "Combiner1". Source 2 creates 20 boxes. The combiner settings look like so:

This results in the following:

I hope this helps!

CombinerJoin.fsm

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combinerjoin.fsm (24.7 KiB)

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Mia L commented · Jun 17, 2020 at 02:25 PM

Thank you! @Benjamin W2 , is there a way to have the one object that represents multiple be counted as such when showing names & stats of the fixed resources?

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Benjamin W2 Mia L commented · Jun 17, 2020 at 03:18 PM

Not necessarily, it just needs at least 2 input ports. If you are just trying to batch 20 items from a Queue, I would recommend connecting the first port to a source.

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