Referencing Decision Point in Process Flow

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Aaupadhye asked Jul 13, '23 Carter Walch commented Jul 13, '23

Referencing Decision Point in Process Flow

*I am only working on the left most part of the process flow for now, the rest is just a copy paste job*

Essentially what I am trying to do is assign a label called "sendDirection" to the box that gets created. Once it arrives at the Decision point 'DP8' if its value is 1 it should go to DP7 and if not it should go to DP9. I cannot find a way to route the box using decision points in process flow, so I tried hard coding logic onto the decision point but it does not work. On top of this, even if the box hits the pack station the operator does not start the task sequence.

Thanks,

Amit

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FlexSim 23.0.8

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Natalie White commented · Jul 13, 2023 at 07:32 PM

@Aaupadhye,

Your previous question at https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/146119/process-flow-approach.html now has an answer with another example that resolves this question.

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Answer 1 · 2023-07-13T19:14:31Z

Carter Walch answered Jul 13, '23 Carter Walch commented Jul 13, '23

HI @Aaupadhye ,

You just need to change some of the syntax, but your logic is correct. Because you are assigning the sendDirection label on the created objects and not the token. You will use item.sendDirection instead of token.sendDirection in the trigger of DP8. It is also good to have a default destination value or else it will throw an error.

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Carter Walch commented · Jul 13, 2023 at 07:22 PM

wcocmodeldraft7.fsm

There were some errors with the Create TS activity for small boxes that I believe are unrelated to your question. But the attached model includes fixes for both. We just had to use your labels to determine which operator was the task executer and which station to travel to. Let me know if you have any questions

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Carter Walch Carter Walch commented · Jul 13, 2023 at 07:23 PM

Sorry I need to re-attach the model in the correct version of flexsim, give me one moment

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Carter Walch Carter Walch commented · Jul 13, 2023 at 07:29 PM

Almost ready with the updated model in the right version. But to answer that your other question, because the label sendDirection we are assigning is either 1 or 2, we need to change the cases in Send Item By Case to be 1 or 2. Also make sure that the Case Function doesn't include an equal sign.

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