Reference to the conveyor that a decision point or photo eye is on

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Olav Narjord asked Apr 12, '23 Olav Narjord commented Apr 12, '23

Reference to the conveyor that a decision point or photo eye is on

I am making a model that is dependent on a set of photoeyes and decision points, and more specifically, the queue size that the photo eye or decision point is placed on.

An example to illustrate the usage:

I have a picking station respresented by a photo eye that I want to know the queue size of. That is, I want to know the amount of totes on the conveyor. I haven't found reliable way to make a reference to conveyor via the photo eye, and have been assigning labels manually.

Is there a way to take a given photo eye as input, and return the conveyor that the photo eye (or decisoin point) that it is placed on?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.1.4

conveyors decision points assign labels conveyor decision point

Answer 1 · 2023-04-12T08:08:10Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Apr 12, '23 Olav Narjord commented Apr 12, '23

myPhotoEye.as(Conveyor.DecisionPoint).conveyor

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Olav Narjord commented · Apr 12, 2023 at 08:16 AM

Thank you! Works as intended. Should have gone through the documentation more thoroughly.

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