Empty Queue after X seconds

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Aljoša Jamnik asked Jun 27, '23 Julie Weller commented Jun 27, '23

Empty Queue after X seconds

Greetings,

In my model, I don't know how to empty the queue "Prazni vozički" after 8 hours. The only requirement is that the queue gets fully emptied once at this time (8 hours into the shift or in my case 16:00). Any suggestions are much appreciated!

Thank you and best regards,

Aljoša

Empty queue.fsm

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FlexSim 23.1.2

queue empty

empty-queue.fsm (23.0 MiB)

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Julie Weller commented · Jun 27, 2023 at 04:37 PM

Hi @Aljoša Jamnik! Do you want the items in the queue to just be deleted or to go to the output queues when they're cleared?

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Aljoša Jamnik Julie Weller commented · Jun 27, 2023 at 04:43 PM

Both are OK. But I do like the second one a bit more.

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Answer 1 · 2023-06-27T16:57:15Z

Julie Weller answered Jun 27, '23 Julie Weller commented Jun 27, '23

Ok @Aljoša Jamnik! That's pretty simple to implement! I added a source that created a token at 16:00:00 then ran a subflow that systematically moved objects from the queue to the output queues (I did a 50/50 split but you can choose or you could replace it with a delete object.

The trickiest part is getting the subnodes part right, you can look at the model and see how I referenced the queue.

Here's the model:

empty-queue_1.fsm

Does that answer your question?

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empty-queue-1.fsm (148.5 KiB)

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Aljoša Jamnik commented · Jun 27, 2023 at 05:21 PM

Thank you Julie for the very quick and precise answer! This solves my problem!

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Julie Weller Aljoša Jamnik commented · Jun 27, 2023 at 05:25 PM

I'm glad! Good luck on your model!

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