When Photo Eye Blocked, Send Different Direction.

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browna15 asked Aug 3, '23 Natalie White commented Aug 8, '23

When Photo Eye Blocked, Send Different Direction.

In my simulation I would like Flow Items of Type 1 and 2 go down a specific conveyor, but when there is one flow item on that conveyor, they use the conveyor the rest of the flow items use (the right most down flowing conveyor). In my current set up I use a decision point by chance to send Flow Items 1 and 2 down their respective conveyor, however when the restricted area (their respective conveyor) is full (1 flow item), they pause at the flow item as opposed to continuing to the next conveyor. How do I fix this?

Thank you for the consideration.

Model: ConveyorSortTest.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.1.6

photo eye conditional decide direction

conveyorsorttest.fsm (24.9 KiB)

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Natalie White commented · Aug 08, 2023 at 05:20 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-08-03T17:02:03Z

Carter Walch answered Aug 3, '23 Carter Walch edited Aug 3, '23

Hi @browna15 ,

conveyorsorttest.fsm

If you use a send item instead of send item by case, you can choose to only send an item of Type 1 or 2 if the conveyor doesn't already have an item on it. This is what that looks like:

When the red item arrives at the DP, an item is already on the conveyor so it continues down the normal conveyor.

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conveyorsorttest.fsm (45.0 KiB)

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