How to send Box (With Type) to conveyors using AGV (Without A- S connection ) ?

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Amey Ramane asked Sep 19, '22 Amey Ramane commented Sep 20, '22

How to send Box (With Type) to conveyors using AGV (Without A- S connection ) ?

Hi All,

I am working on one prototype model . There are cartons with Type duniform (1,8) which are coming out of two conveyors. They are 8 conveyors which will act as destinations . We want as per type of the box , box should be be send to desired one conveyor out of 8 conveyors. You can use 8 numbers for conveyors from 1 to 8 . Only thing is that we do not want to go with A-S connection approach . As if number of destination conveyors gets increase up to 30-40 , then we have to use process flow approach (may be grouping of exit transfer and as per Type on box, AGV can reach to desired conveyor ). Can someone help on this .

I have uploaded model with the name "Sorting_Bot_Testing" on FlexSim File Share .

Or Can download model from here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16uJpolqyxM9UoSjN6QQ5qAp5KHxw_xDo/view?usp=sharing

Thank you.

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.2.2

agv picking unloading

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Answer 1 · 2022-09-19T19:09:38Z

Paula Carneiro Martins answered Sep 19, '22 Amey Ramane commented Sep 20, '22

Other possibility is using a global table to link the label Type with the destination.

In this case, I used a decision point to link the 3D model with the process flow (When the item arrived in the decision point, it create a token in Process flow)

In process flow, we take the item information for create the transportation between the conveyors

Using the global table, based on the row number we took the name of the entry transfer to unload the item :
As we want to unload in the entry transfer, we just take the object reference using the Model.find function.

Please let me Know, if this approach was helpful for you!
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Amey Ramane commented · Sep 20, 2022 at 04:03 AM

Hi @Paula Carneiro Martins ,

Thank you very much for the support . It did help me.
Only thing , I would like to add is that in Global table we can change the data type of column to Assign Pointer Data .So no need of extra label creation called " lb_destination"

I really appreciate your efforts and the explanation !!!!
Thank you.

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Answer 2 · 2022-09-19T12:00:36Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Sep 19, '22 Amey Ramane commented Sep 20, '22

You can use a global list for this. The Exit Transfers push the items onto the list. And the Entry Transfer of the destination conveyors pull them, triggering the transport. To only pull specific types, you can use a pull query to filter the available items on the list.

In the screenshot above I use a label to hold the type value that should be pulled and reference it in the query. You could also enter the value directly into the query (though that means editing the value later takes more clicks).

You can also forego using the query and instead pre-sort the items into partitions on the list.

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(Rightclick on the file attachment -> Save Link/Target As (might be called differently depending on the browser) -> Set "Save as type" to All Types -> Save with a name ends with .fsm)

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