How to Load and Carry Items from Two Queues One By One

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Eric C2 asked Dec 23, '20 Jeanette F commented Jan 6, '21

How to Load and Carry Items from Two Queues One By One

Hi,

I'm trying to design a production line and I have a problem wuith queue.

I have two queue with two different products (one for each queue).

I need that my operator (who is working on both queue) load a product from one queue and then repeat the same queue. I mean that always my operator sholud go to the same queue twice, then can change the queue.

Someone can help me to solve this issue with a Process Flow?

Thank you in advance.

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FlexSim 21.0.0

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Jan 06, 2021 at 02:17 AM

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Answer 1 · 2020-12-24T06:37:07Z

Marcello Rosadini answered Dec 24, '20 Eric C2 commented Dec 25, '20

Hi Eric,

here is a simple model that can give you a good place to start. You might need to make it more robust for considering other scenarios. You can set up the number of repetitions that the operator needs to do on each queue, however there is no alternative logic in case there's not enough items to pick, or if the assigned queue is empty. Depending on your situation, you might need to work on those scenarios.

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Eric C2 commented · Dec 25, 2020 at 05:21 PM

Hi Marcello,

Thank you so much for your answer.Is not exactly what I need but it could be useful to reach the correct simulation.

Thank you again.

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Answer 2 · 2020-12-29T23:45:48Z

Cliff King answered Dec 29, '20 Eric C2 commented Dec 30, '20

@Eric C2, I didn't realized this was already answered, but here is another example model for you to learn from as well. The operator retrieves two items from Queue1 (one at a time) and takes them to a processor, then two more items (one at a time) from Queue2 and takes them to a processor for a total of 4 items (2 of each item type) to be processed at the processor. This process is repeated by the operator.

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Eric C2 commented · Dec 30, 2020 at 08:25 AM

thank you, this example was so useful for me.

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