How to assign 4 different product to 4 different coolers??

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Payal Patel asked Apr 11, '21 Ben Wilson commented Apr 14, '21

How to assign 4 different product to 4 different coolers??

There are 130 trucks are coming from 8 am to 8 pm and each truck contains 20 pallets. So, total numbers of pallet will be 2600. There are 4 coolers for 4 products. Products are distributed by percentage.10% , 40%, 30%, 20% for product 1, product 2 , product 3 and product 4 respectively. Particular products are going from inbound conveyor to particular coolers.

From the given data , should get highlighted numbers of throughput of coolers. But, not getting exact numbers of inputs for coolers (e.g. cooler1-input).

10% of 2600 = 260

40% of 2600 = 1040

30% of 2600 = 780

20% of 2600 = 520

I am attaching the model below. Run-length of model is 24 hr. ( 8 am to 2 am). Thanks in advance.

Experiment Model.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.3

flexsim 21.0.3 item type shift schedule by percentage exponential distribution

cooler1-input.png (9.6 KiB)

experiment-model.fsm (194.6 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Apr 11, 2021 at 10:54 AM

You have a ratio and not a distribution! You can try to keep a balance of your ratio constant. Or you update a list with a default set of entries every day and you pull randomly items from this list. You can do this with 2600 entries. Alternatively you pull randomly a type and reduce the total amount of available pieces by keeping track of the overflow.

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Apr 14, 2021 at 08:43 PM

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Answer 1 · 2021-04-11T11:00:57Z

Joerg Vogel answered Apr 11, '21 Joerg Vogel edited Apr 12, '21

EDIT: This Example uses a list and pulls values of the list to reduce a unit field value. The list value is just an index. The index correlates to a global table to update the daily or any other stock of available items to create in the model.

List("dailyParts").pull("SELECT unit ORDER BY RAND()",1.0,1.0,token,0,0)

random_Ratio_by_list.fsm

Here is a different example to keep a balance constant.

random-items-by-ratio-in-list-or-table.gif (110.8 KiB)

random-ratio-by-list.fsm (35.5 KiB)

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