How to generate the item to the specific bay of the rack by process flow?

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Kevin-Hsiang asked Apr 12, '22 Kevin-Hsiang commented Apr 12, '22

How to generate the item to the specific bay of the rack by process flow?

Hi,

About the model:

In this model, my purpose is to simulate a "picking by picker" model. There are 16 racks in the warehouse, the main purpose is to assign pickers to the different rack locations to pick items by order, and know the completion time.

My goal:

First, I want to generate items that can be full of all racks at the simulated start, and the items are set the label to put in the specific bay of rack by sequence.

For example: In Rack1/Bay1->put item1, Rack1/Bay2->put item2... In Rack2/Bay1->put item6

To clearly describe my goal, it's shown below:

My problem:

I originally used Source, A connection, and Trigger to generate items to the racks, but it doesn't look like a good way. So I tried to use process flow and read more answers to try, still did not find the appropriate operation.

Is there any smart way by using process flow?

Regards,

Kevin

PickToParts_model0412.fsm

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FlexSim 22.0.1

processflow racks item

picktoparts-model0412.fsm (829.6 KiB)

picktoparts-goal.png (3.3 MiB)

Answer 1 · 2022-04-12T05:31:24Z

Joerg Vogel answered Apr 12, '22 Kevin-Hsiang commented Apr 12, '22

Attached model fills in each bay, level and first slot one item. findItem is responsible to manage storage places in your whole Warehouse.

picktoparts_fillracks-JV.fsm

picktoparts-fillracks-jv.fsm (834.0 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Apr 12, 2022 at 05:36 AM

here is an example enhanced to store only one item per bay in first level, first slot.

picktoparts_fillracks_one_item_per_bay-JV.fsm

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picktoparts-fillracks-one-item-per-bay-jv.fsm (834.0 KiB)

Kevin-Hsiang commented · Apr 12, 2022 at 10:13 AM

@Joerg Vogel Thanks for your help! and I'd like to know further that could the each bay can be fill up all items (the item in the same bay which only with the same label value), like shown below:

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fill-up-items.png (554.7 KiB)

Joerg Vogel Kevin-Hsiang commented · Apr 12, 2022 at 10:24 AM

@Kevin-Hsiang , there are four terms in a rack which describe a place.

Bay has Levels
Level has Cells
Cell has slots

Do you want a cell filled up with one type untill there is no more space available or by a number of items?

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Kevin-Hsiang Joerg Vogel commented · Apr 12, 2022 at 10:46 AM

@Joerg Vogel Got it. Yes, my goal is make a cell filled up with one type until there is no more space available.

The model scene that I assume the racks are full of items and then dispatch the pickers to pick the items.

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