how to get rid of a bottleneck in a conveyor?

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Abdellah C2 asked Nov 17, '22 Abdellah C2 commented Nov 17, '22

how to get rid of a bottleneck in a conveyor?

Hello all,

I am trying to get rid of the bottleneck that has the green boxes , I added 3 processors but it does not help. What are other ways I can use to get rid of it?

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FlexSim 22.2.2

conveyor processors bottleneck

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Sri_vikas K commented · Nov 17, 2022 at 06:14 AM

Hi @Abdellah C2

Your model is getting struck at conveyors because the processor is taking lot of time to process. Small suggestion I could give is you can increase the conveyor speed and decrease the process time of the processors.

Is it the thing you need?

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Abdellah C2 Sri_vikas K commented · Nov 17, 2022 at 08:22 AM

Thank you @Sri_vikas K . I will try it and see what will happen.

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Answer 1 · 2022-11-17T07:46:07Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Nov 17, '22

Some more observations in addition to what Sri_vikas said:

- There are three processors "BrakepressB" but only two operators to service them. This leads to items often waiting to be moved to the queue, blocking the processor. An additional operator will improve the throughput.

- Due to the interval in which the pallets arrive on the conveyor on the right, the queue in front of the combiner sometimes can't clear an item fast enough, again blocking the output of a processor for some time.

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