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Hi,

to get the decision points to send the items to the correct processors, you could create a label on each of them referencing the number of the processor they are connected to. Let's call this label "Station" for now. Then, you'd add an OnArrival trigger choosing the "Send Item By Case" option. The case function should be a reference to the table cell containing the next machine number.

Table("operacje_kolejnosc")[item.ItemType][item.nr_operacji]

Below, you add the case

current.Station

meaning that, if the next machine number is equal to the "Station" label on the decision point, the item will be send to the connected queue.

In the OnProcessFinish trigger of the processors you already increment the step counter. The code in the "Send To Port" field is also a great start. All you have to do here, is check whether the next machine number is higher or lower than the current one to decide whether to send the item to port 1 (higher) or port 2 (lower). That could look like the following:

int row = item.ItemType;
int column = item.nr_operacji;
int next_step_number = Table("operacje_kolejnosc")[row][column];
int last_step_number = Table("operacje_kolejnosc")[row][column-1];

if (next_step_number == 0 || next_step_number > last_step_number)
    return 1;
else
    return 2;

Also I just noticed the step counter is incremented twice on machine 4. That is probably not correct (?)

Hope I could help.

Kind regards

Thanks guys! That's what I really wanted!