Please refer to the attached model. The robot stops handling of items from one of the processors after approx. 5 min (simulation time) . Can you please help? Thanks. Note: I am unable to upload model file for some reason. Since it is a simple model, I have attached a snapshot. Please bear with me. Thanks for understanding . forFlexsom.jpg
With a cycle time or 20s the separator is the clear bottleneck in your model. What is likely happening is that each time the separator finishes, another item is ready at both of the processors. Since the input ports are evaluated in order of their rank, the item waiting on the processor that connects to the first separator input will always be chosen.
If you want to enforce that the input should alternate, use the "Pull" option in the separator and choose "Round Robin" or "Round Robin if Available" as the pull strategy.
No, an object can only pull items that were send to its respective port by the upstream-object's "Send to Port" option.
As an example, if two processors are set to pull anything but the queue in front only sends items to the first, the second processor will not the able to pull anything.
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