Conditional Conveyor Slug Building Possible?

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Leo L6 asked Dec 8, '22 Jeanette F commented Dec 14, '22

Conditional Conveyor Slug Building Possible?

Hi,

I'm wondering if it is possible to build slugs on conveyor only when the merging conveyor is not available for allocation. So when things are moving slowly, items move one at a time and slugs are not built. But when things are running quickly more items are waiting on the merging conveyor so it makes sense to build a slug.

Hopefully that makes sense and thanks in advance for any help!

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FlexSim 22.2.2

conveyors conveyorsystem slug building slug conveyors slug

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Dec 14, 2022 at 03:16 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-12-09T00:07:39Z

Jonah K answered Dec 9, '22

ConditionalSlugBuilder.fsm

You can use turn a conveyor into a slug-building conveyor with this code:

treenode conveyor = Model.find("StraightConveyor2");
setvarnum(conveyor, "isSlugBuilder", 1);

I created a process flow in a simple model that turns StraightConveyor2 into a slug builder when it is triggered (at time = 18000).

Unfortunately, it leaves the conveyor as a slug builder when you reset the model. But you can use this code to turn it back into a non-slug-building:

setvarnum(conveyor, "isSlugBuilder", 0);

conditionalslugbuilder.fsm (44.8 KiB)

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