Conveyor Even Distribution

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Michael D6 asked Sep 3, '21 Michael D6 answered Sep 7, '21

Conveyor Even Distribution

FlexsimConveyorDistributionHelp.fsmI have a conveyor system that has one main line and three outputs. I want objects to be distributed evenly to the three conveyors. I set it up to use control points with bernoulli distributions, but the random nature causes congestion if the distribution favors one vs the others. Is there a function that sequentially indexes objects to one of three conveyors (3, 2, 1) in that pattern repeatedly rather than relying on distributions? It is not clear to me how to set that up. I made a simple model that shows that certain processors are being starved of work while the conveyor gets backed up because the distribution is based on random probability and not uniform kickout.

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FlexSim 21.2.2

conveyor distributions flexsim 21.2.2

flexsimconveyordistributionhelp.fsm (41.8 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Sep 03, 2021 at 03:06 PM

Round Robin or

modulus operation

object.stats.output.value % 3 + 1

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Michael D6 Joerg Vogel commented · Sep 03, 2021 at 03:51 PM

Thanks, this worked. I found the answer with a quick search after you said Round Robin.

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Jeanette F ♦♦ Michael D6 commented · Sep 03, 2021 at 07:46 PM

Hello @Michael D6,

If you have found a solution, can you create an answer and accept it for this question? If not, let us know and the community will assist you further.

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Answer 1 · 2021-09-07T12:23:10Z

Michael D6 answered Sep 7, '21

Based on comment by @Joerg Vogel the round robin can be setup in a process flow. I did this approach and it worked well.

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