Controlling the merge ratio at the conveyor merges?

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CPL asked Apr 14, '23 CPL commented Apr 19, '23

Controlling the merge ratio at the conveyor merges?

I have model on Baggage Handling system layout. How can i control the merge ratios at the merges.??

Refer the attached image that shows that, I have two line merges into single takeaway conveyor. I need to maintain merge ratios for Line A,B,C as 5:1:2 which is 5 bags from line A and 1 bag from line B and 2 bags from line c. Also, these ratios will be variable in future.

Thanks in advance.

Sudharsan R

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FlexSim 22.2.0

merge controller

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Answer 1 · 2023-04-14T08:56:57Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Apr 14, '23 CPL commented Apr 19, '23

I built a similar system as an example for this post.

Each incoming conveyor has a photo eye, only one of which lets item pass at a given time. Each item increments a counter label. If that label reaches the target value, the photo eye will stop the next item and sends a message to the other one to 'let it know' that it can now let items pass.

It shouldn't be too hard to adjust this to accomodate more than two incoming conveyors. Essentially just change where the message in the photo eye trigger. (PE1 sends to PE2, PE2 to PE3 and PE3 to PE1. Also make sure that all but one photo eye have the "StopNext" label set to 1 one model reset.)

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CPL commented · Apr 19, 2023 at 10:18 AM

Thanks for the answer.

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