opavailable problem on a send to port logic

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Andres Pallaro asked Feb 1, '22 Jason Lightfoot edited Feb 1, '22

opavailable problem on a send to port logic

Hello,

I am working on an special logic on the sent to port of a queue (Buffer1) where I modified the code to send specific product according to some fields.

I identified a problem where this Buffer1 does not send all the product it can to its outputs (M1, M2...). I tracked it down and foun out the command opavailable(Model.find("Buffer1"),1) is not workingas expected. For example on second 426 Queue M1 has still space but the command output is "0" istead of "1". This happens also in other cases and causes inefficiencies on the model logic.

Is there something wrong?

POC_Test stations entry logic and table_3.fsm

Thanks!

@Julio R

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.0.1

sendtoport opavailable

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poc-test-stations-entry-logic-and-table-3.fsm (62.4 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2022-02-01T08:23:06Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Feb 1, '22 Jason Lightfoot edited Feb 1, '22

Reevaluating the send to port code for each item every time an item exits a downstream queue (to allow for previously unreleased items to be transported) means that items that were already released are counted multiple times. This "clogs" up the internal logic of the port connections as they might then be expected to arrive at multiple objects, but only do so once (creating "ghost items", so to speak).

To prevent this I add a label "released" to an item if it is successfully released and terminate the code early if that label is present on an item when the logic gets reevaluated.

poc-test-stations-entry-logic-and-table-4.fsm

poc-test-stations-entry-logic-and-table-4.fsm (62.5 KiB)

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Feb 01, 2022 at 11:31 AM

You might also be able to test the item state instead of using a label.

getitemstate(item)==FRSTATE_READY

Here's an example showing the states:

FRState.fsm

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