Picking from rack and breaking it to use in a processor in process flow

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GRodea asked Jun 16, '23 Carter Walch commented Jun 26, '23

Picking from rack and breaking it to use in a processor in process flow

Hello,

I am trying to pick up a Fulltote and then moved to Honsberg to process the Calipers and then bring them back in the racks.

I am doing it all in process flow.

My current problem is that the Forklift cannot load it to move it to my queue. Also, I have not find much information on how to break the tote and the boxes and process them separately.

Thanks for your support,Not picking and then break into components.fsm

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FlexSim 23.1.0

picking unbatching

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Carter Walch commented · Jun 26, 2023 at 05:17 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-06-16T22:46:35Z

Jonah K answered Jun 16, '23 Jonah K commented Jun 20, '23

The main issue is that all of the tokens were combined into one token when you made a batch, so you can't get the same repeating load/unload behavior you were getting before. One workaround to this is to create all the tokens again with Create Tokens, like I've done in the attached model. After the resource is acquired, I assign each of the new tokens a new label called currentCaliper which is the last item inside the tote.

Make sure as you continue that you acquire your Operator resource, then reference that same operator with token.resource in your Executer field of your Load/Unload activities, then release your Operator to begin the next cycle.

Additionally, a Separator fixed resource can be used to easily separate a container from its contents. In this case, I just used token.FullTote.last to get the last item in the current tote, which also works.

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GRodea commented · Jun 19, 2023 at 01:14 PM

I am sorry but I am not getting what you are trying to do with the proposed solution. When I run the model, the forklift just get stucked in one of the queues and the system stops.

What I understand from your explanation is that I need to create a completely new Token with the "Create Token" but then, how can I a show in the 3D model that what is left in Rack 4, will be processed by the honsberg machine?

I am attaching a model that is working as should exept for the Honsberg processor

GSN1 and GSN2 working properly and drop items in racks adding broach6_autosave.fsm

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Jonah K ♦ GRodea commented · Jun 19, 2023 at 04:54 PM

I think that's my bad, the first Release Resource in the Honsberg flow should have token.resource in the first field, not token.Forklift. I've made the change and the forklift doesn't get stuck anymore.

not-picking-and-then-break-into-components-jk2.fsm

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GRodea Jonah K ♦ commented · Jun 20, 2023 at 01:03 PM

Thanks a lot for the proposal. I would like to understand the logic behind;

You created a new token with a value 10 (matching the 10 calipers previously on the tote) so then the operator can take them.

What I am not understanding is then how to get rid of the empty tote? Should I create a different token called 'empty tote' to then on an exit event, call the forklift to remove it?

I appreciate your time on this!

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