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How to assign a label to specific batch of products

Hello flexsim Gurus!

My source is to release flow items in batches of 50 flow items. I used the arrival style ärrival schedule to simulate this. Find the picture attached below.

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From the source, The flow items are to be carried in batches to two different processors by a task executer.

I increased the maximum capacity of the task executer to 50 and it is able to carry 50 items.

The processors have been set to perform batch processing with the batch size set at 50. The processors maximum capacity too have been increased to 50.

However, the Task executer doesn't drop all of them on one processor. It shares them between the two processors. This doesn't produce the results I want because each processor is expected to process the items in batches of 50.

I'm thinking I can create an item list and make use of the push and pull function on the source and processors respectively.

However, to use this function, I will need the batches designated for processor 1 to have a specific label and those designated to processor 2 to have a specific label.

How can I set the first 4 batches to get a specific label and the next 11 batches to get their own label? This way all items in a batch will be dropped to only the processor that is pulling the label they were assigned.

FlexSim 23.1.3
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Natalie White answered MC Bunji commented

@MC Bunji,

You can add a label to your arrival table for the source.

I am not able to recreate the issue you described. If you need further assistance, can you post your model?

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If I understand your question correctly, then it is not necessary to use a list. You can simply set a label on creation of the flowitems in the source and then use the specific item label pull requirement option on your processors.
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If I do it that way, the items will be assigned labels intermittently one after the other, as they flow into the system. I want the first 50 items to get a specific label different from the next batch of 50 items if that makes sense.
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MC Bunji avatar image MC Bunji MC Bunji commented ·

Not as the default setting will behave by assigning the first item the lable 1, the second getting the lable 2 and so forth...

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