Prioritize Conveyor Stations

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Abder23 asked Jul 3, '23 Abder23 commented Jul 4, '23

Prioritize Conveyor Stations

Hello there,

In the attached model I want to simulate a Wheighing Station in which the 2 scales are placed next to each other.

Since the item should be wheighed only once, I want to prioritize the seconde scale (station 2) when not idle.

The assigned label "IsWheighed" == 0 when the item is created and turns == 1 once it is wheighed.

Please provide some guidance

weighingstation.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.0.16

conveyor station

weighingstation.fsm (39.8 KiB)

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Carter Walch commented · Jul 03, 2023 at 08:40 PM

Hi @Abder23 , it looks like your model wasn't attached. Can you try to attach it again?

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Abder23 Carter Walch commented · Jul 03, 2023 at 08:44 PM

Thanks,

It's done

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Answer 1 · 2023-07-03T21:31:45Z

Carter Walch answered Jul 3, '23 Abder23 commented Jul 4, '23

Hi @Abder23 ,

weighingstation (1).fsm

If I understand correctly, you want to prioritize the second conveyor station when it is not being used so that both conveyor stations will be used efficiently. For the process condition of station1, I added a condition where station2 must be processing an item for station1 to also process an item.

This means that when an item arrives at station1, it will be sent to station2 to be processed if there is no item on station2 yet. Then on station2, the only condition is that IsWeighed == 0. This makes sure we don't process items twice. I also changed the trigger to "On Process Finish" instead of "On Continue" so we only mark items as Weighed if they are processed.

Let me know if that helps!

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conveyor.gif (5.8 MiB)

weighingstation-1.fsm (38.6 KiB)

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Abder23 commented · Jul 04, 2023 at 01:16 AM

Hi,

Exactly what I was looking for,

Thanks a lot

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