Load Multiple itens in process flow

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Maria B17 asked May 9, '23 Jonah K commented May 9, '23

Load Multiple itens in process flow

Good afternoon!

I'm trying to build a flow with process flow but I'm facing a problem that I can't solve and I didn't find any solution available on the forum. The point is that I need my operator to load 18 items available in the queue at once.

load of 18 items -> trevel with 18 items -> unload of 18 items.

Another problem I am facing is that when unloading this material, I already have another operator who will be responsible for assembling a pallet, and I need him to remove box by box from the queue and place the amount of 12 boxes, and after loading the 12 boxes it will have a delay of a few seconds and then repeat the process of putting another 12 boxes in the queue separately.

I am not able to organize this information in the process flow, could you help me please?

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.1.1

processflow operator load travel unload

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Answer 1 · 2023-05-09T20:19:17Z

Jacob W2 answered May 9, '23 Jonah K commented May 9, '23

Hi @Maria B17,

To have the operator load and unload a set number of items like you are describing, one way is to use a sub flow. In the model I am including I have created an array of items that I pulled from a list of available items. I then generate a number of tokens equal to the number of items pulled and then load and unload them in the two separate sub flows I created.

In regards to your second question I have also included an example of a token flowing through a loop that increments each time it loops and uses a decide activity to either loop the token again, or have the token reset the count label and begin again. To have this control an operator you would need to have the operator acquire a box, I would suggest using a list for this, and then have the operator load and unload the box. Then I would increment the count for how many times the operator has done this task.

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Jonah K ♦ commented · May 09, 2023 at 08:26 PM

Here is another simple model to demonstrate loading and unloading with a taskexecuter:

Load18Unload.fsm

The moveObject activity can also be replaced by an unload activity.

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