How to pull item from a storage as per the global table

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Jagadheesh S asked Sep 9, '20 Jagadheesh S answered Oct 8, '20

How to pull item from a storage as per the global table

I am new to the flexsim and trying to simulate a model which has 2 sources that creates a fixed items and sends to 2 racks. Then i will pull the specific item from the rack to conveyor using the pull statement linked to the type of the item. The type is determined by the global table which i will replace with a process flow.

It works for the first 8 items and then it stops and not working again when i change the type in global table using another source in the process flow. I couldn't figure out where am making a mistake. Please help me out.

I have attached my model for your review and help.

Thanks for your kind help.Layout_Tryv8.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.0.0

flexsim 19.0.0 global table pull

layout-tryv8.fsm (62.2 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2020-10-07T13:40:34Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Oct 7, '20

The problem is I think that you set the entrytransfer pull type to zero and so no items match and the pull doesn't get reevaluated. You can use openinput(<entrytransfer>) to force the reevaluation if the pull is set to zero, but it's a bit clunky that way.

I think you'd be better pushing the sequence to a list and have a token for each entrytransfer pull from the top of that list.

Answer 2 · 2020-10-08T05:18:33Z

Jagadheesh S answered Oct 8, '20

Thanks for the insight Jason. I did it with process flow as u suggested.

Thanks again

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