Mimicking a pick-off on a conveyor

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Adil M asked Nov 23, '22 Adil M commented Nov 23, '22

Mimicking a pick-off on a conveyor

I've built a model that mimics a packaging facility. The model was working fine until I added operators as pickers ( basically not using not using 'use transport' in the exit transfers to get the packages from the conveyor onto the buffer zones). Each package has a 'label' attached to it, on the basis of which it is to be 'picked' by one of the operators and placed on the buffer zone next to them. The package will then be picked by scanners(controlled by dispatcher) and placed on the pallet location (Eg: P34).

I want the the operators to not move from their position and simply pick packages from conveyor and slide the packages onto the buffer zone. For some reason I'm not able to achieve this. I've not used process flow for this model and would ideally prefer not using it for the solution. Current State Model.fsm

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FlexSim 22.1.2

pick off conveyor

current-state-model.fsm (128.5 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2022-11-23T08:15:23Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Nov 23, '22 Adil M commented Nov 23, '22

You can keep them from moving around by connecting them to a network node, that is also connected to the exit transfer and the buffer queue. Then set them to not do offset travel.

That way they are always considered to be in position to pick up/drop off the items. In the attached model I added a small unload time, as otherwise the pick process would take no time and not be visible with this change.

current-state-model_2.fsm

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current-state-model-2.fsm (130.8 KiB)

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