how can I made a kiva model with sort station?

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joc asked Mar 31, '23 Felix Möhlmann answered Apr 12, '23

how can I made a kiva model with sort station?

Hello everyone,

hope you're doing well!

We have a warehouse 1234.fsm that runs a Kiva model. Behind it, there are 4 Racks and next to them is a space where products from robots are sorted and the picker takes and separates them into pallets in the back queues.

1) I'm trying to automatically fill the shelves with boxes at different levels, bays etc., but both in process flow and manually, the transporter got stuck in queue.
2) How can picker take the products from the conveyor and sort them into pallet in the 3 queues that I have placed behind?

3)How can I make the shelves above the robots look more like, lets say, at Amazon?

Thank you in advance,

Yours sincerely.

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.0.5

racks kiva robot sorting conveyor

1234.fsm (668.5 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Mar 31, 2023 at 07:01 AM

3. Just do it, but with an external tool like a 3D designer. Or you look for it here at this site. Someone posted a model shape already. Perhaps me? Edit: https://answers.flexsim.com/comments/72521/view.html

2. A pallet in a queue is a subnode of the queue. You will move your entering item into this subnode of this queue. Edit2: https://docs.flexsim.com/en/23.1/Reference/CodingInFlexSim/FlexScriptAPIReference/Tree/treenode.html#Property-subnodes

Edit3: https://docs.flexsim.com/en/23.1/Reference/CodingInFlexSim/FlexScriptAPIReference/Tree/treenode.html#Property-first

look also for treenode properties last, prev, next. You get access to items between first and last by subnodes property.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Mar 31, 2023 at 11:48 AM

Please reopen the default workspace and you will see upon running that you have many exceptions that you need to fix.

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joc Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Apr 03, 2023 at 08:13 AM

Τhanks for your fast reply.

Could you be more specific? please.

Thank you in advance.

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Apr 07, 2023 at 04:12 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-04-03T08:28:30Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Apr 3, '23

Your unfinished (?) "Create Bays" section in the Robot Process Flow is causing the errors, because you refer to Rack1 in the Assign Labels activity Setup, which does not exist in the model and the Destination field of the Create Tokens activity just contains text, not a reference to another activity.

In regards to your actual questions:

1. I don't see what you mean by the forklift "got stuck" in the queue. It correctly moves items to the racks when I run the model.

2. It might be easier to use combiners for this. You can change their visual to that of a queue if the look is important. After connecting them to the source and conveyor, you would set where to send the items in the Send to Port option of the Exit Transfer and activate the Use Transport option to have an operator move the items (either reference directly or through a centerport connection). Currently the items are indistinguishable from each other, so I'm not sure how they should be sorted.

3. Either use other software to design a 3d shape as Jörg said, or you could try to build something out of the standard shapes in FlexSim in the FlowItemBin.

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