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How to make an operator to take parts from a tote container ?

HI everyone, I am new with this software and I want to simulate the process of welding using process flow, here a forklift arrives with a container with 3500 parts , I need each operator to take 120 parts from this container until finish. The issue I have is that when the container arrives i dont know how i can make the operator to take only some parts until all the container is empty.welding.jpg

Do someone have some example how i can do this?

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Hi @RaulS.a ,

subflowDemo.fsm

To reference the items inside a container object like a tote or a pallet, you can use subnodes[index] where index is a number for each item in the container. For example, when a tote arrives we can use process flow to assign that tote to token.tote. Then we can reference the items inside it with token.tote.subnodes[1] (this gets the first item in the tote.

To answer your question about an operating taking a specific number of parts from a tote, we can use a subflow activity in process flow. In the model I attached above, each tote has 20 items. The operator will complete a task sequence of loading and unloading the first item in the tote 5 times. You could do similar logic in your model and take 120 items from the container object.

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Let me know if that helps and feel free to attach your model if this isn't what you were looking for.



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