Unloading multiple flowitem to two locations at once

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Ryosuke S asked Dec 23, '21 Ryosuke S commented Dec 24, '21

Unloading multiple flowitem to two locations at once

Operator will transport 40 items from one queue and drop off 20 items at two queues. i'd like to drop off the items at once. However, operator drops at the queue one at a time, so the operator is traveling back and forth between to queues.

Is there any way to make the operator dropoff at once? If I put the conveyor, there is an option setting "Max Transports In" at EntryTransfer which enable similar behavior, but I don't want to put conveyor. Also I would not want to use processflow if possible.

DropMultiFlowItem.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.8

queue transport

dropmultiflowitem.fsm (50.0 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2021-12-23T09:33:38Z

Joerg Vogel answered Dec 23, '21 Ryosuke S commented Dec 24, '21

Try different priorities in transport jobs. Transport job of last loaded items destination gets higher priority than other destination.

unload trigger

/**Custom Code*/
TaskExecuter current = ownerobject(c);
Object item = param(1);
Object station = param(2);
TaskSequence curTask = current.activeTaskSequence;
if(curTask.tasks[4].involved1 == Model.find("Queue3"))
curTask.priority = 2;

this code reads the 4th task involved 1st parameter to identify unload destination and changes the priority.

dropmultiflowitem_priority.fsm

dropmultiflowitem-priority.fsm (50.0 KiB)

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Ryosuke S commented · Dec 24, 2021 at 01:04 AM

@Joerg Vogel Thank you for your reply. This is quite helpful.

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