Want a Crane to load and unload multiple items at once

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Jason Merschat asked Jun 2, '22 Jason Merschat commented Jun 2, '22

Want a Crane to load and unload multiple items at once

I have created a model using Process Flow where I am trying to load multiple items at once with a crane onto a conveyor. I referenced "Picking multiple items (at once) on FloorStorage using crane" but for some reason I cannot replicate the effect.

I've increased the crane capacity, made the Pull From List requested and required numbers > 1, I can see the array of tokens picked, but the visuals and result is not a bundle of flow items moving to the destination.

Crane Bundle Load.fsm

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FlexSim 22.1.2

crane bundle load

crane-bundle-load.fsm (249.9 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Jun 02, 2022 at 04:23 AM

What is a bundle for you? Items stay stacked above another. Or items are like a line on a conveyor.

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Answer 1 · 2022-06-02T11:04:38Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Jun 2, '22 Jason Merschat commented Jun 2, '22

I would rename your pulled array as "items". Then you should refer to that in the runsubflow where you tell it how many tokens to run in that subflow using token.items.length. In that runsubflow for each of the tokens there should also be a reference to each item - added as a label that reads from the array of 10.

Model attached.crane-bundle-load_jl.fsm

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Jason Merschat commented · Jun 02, 2022 at 07:56 PM

Thanks for the help!

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