how can I solve those problems?

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Ad Yn asked Mar 23, '23 Kavika F commented Mar 24, '23

how can I solve those problems?

I just found the program 3 days ago and I watched some tutorials trying to build a simulation for a small automated warehouse using ASRS for my university project. I am facing 3 problems.

1- I have 3 types of items, and I want the source to give me 30 items (just only 10 items for each type).

2- As well, I couldn't customize the ASRS to put the 10 items of the same type in two rows, and the other ten in the next two rows, and so on.

3- The ASRS doesn't retrieve items. I want the ASRS to retrieve the items and put them on the conveyor that carries items out, every time the shelves of one of the items fill up to make space for the next items of the same type.

the project with a photo are attached

pleas can anyone help! :(

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.0.0

warehouse simulation asrs

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Ad Yn commented · Mar 23, 2023 at 01:59 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-03-23T19:55:11Z

Kavika F answered Mar 23, '23 Kavika F commented Mar 24, '23

Hey @Ad Yn, I'll see if I can help a bit with your questions.

1. If you have a type of item, it would be easier to have 1 "Type" that changes value depending on the item, like this:

2. If you want all the items to first go on the rack together and then, once the rack is full, pull the items off, you'll need to write some custom logic for placing items in that order and for waiting to pull them off. I would consider building some Process Flow logic to define custom behavior for the ASRS.

3. If you want the ASRS to pull items off of the rack, you need to a center-port connection (or an S-Connection) between the rack and ASRS.

That way, when your rack's Output panel says to Use Transport > current.centerObjects[1], it knows to use the ASRS:

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Ad Yn commented · Mar 23, 2023 at 08:41 PM

Thanks a lot
the ASRS works and pull the items off of the rack
Now I'm working on the process flow to learn more about it, thanks, you gave me a good hint to begin with :)

but the quantity of the items, I still get (12 blue, 9 red, and 9) green items

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Kavika F ♦ Ad Yn commented · Mar 24, 2023 at 06:28 PM

That's because in your Triggers for the source, you also had a "Set Label" function that overwrote the label you set in the Source.

Take that out and it should work fine.

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