How can I set total quantity of input ?

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Jungeun W asked Oct 12, '22 Andrew O commented Oct 17, '22

How can I set total quantity of input ?

Hi

I want to let my queue in the model get fixed amount of input:

first queue to 10 items, second queue to 20 items from 3 sources.

3 sources will distribute 10 items each.

output control.fsm can i setup to control the quantity of flowitem move to specific queue?

but i dont want to let queue get fixed amount of item from specific source, like 4 from source1, 5 from source2...

Thx!

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.1.0

flowitem input port

output-control.fsm (28.1 KiB)

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Andrew O ♦ commented · Oct 17, 2022 at 05:17 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-10-12T06:13:35Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Oct 12, '22

If all items are created before any can leave the queues, it should be enough to just set the maximum content of the queues to 10, so they stop accepting input after they received 10 items each.

You could also use the batch functionality and have each queue wait until is has received 10 items before it starts to send them further. You can also set that the queue should stop accepting input until it is empty again.

Lastly, you could close the input of the queue in its On Entry trigger when its input stat reaches 10. That way items can leave the queue while it is still accumulating.

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