Hi, all,
A quick question so that I don't unnecessarily build a painfully tedious process flow: is there a way to make a combiner behave (or what is the best way to implement it) so that it
1. accepts a container
2. accepts a flowItem
3. joins it to the container (a process that takes X minutes)
4. accepts another flowItem
5. joins it to the container again (a process that takes Y minutes)
etc.
Thanks in advance!
Hi @Theresa B
You can Achieve this by changing the properties of combiner.
If your combiner is taking different times for packing, You can give that by statistical distribution at process time.
You can loop the container item back to a queue in front of the combiner until, for example, a label that is incremented with each step reaches a certain value.
That same label can be used to have different process times for the steps. ("Values By Case")
In the attached model I close the output of Queue3 when an item exits and open it in the combiner's Send to Port option when a tote is about to send downstream. This is to prevent a new tote from entering Queue4 until the previous one has finished all steps.
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