Confirm the sendable entities within the group in the process flow

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Proxima asked Aug 16, '23 Julie Weller commented Aug 21, '23

Confirm the sendable entities within the group in the process flow

experimenter-test-8_16.fsmHere is my model default setting. I tried using the experimenter to gather more information. On the green block, I used a direct connection for testing. On the red block, I used processflow for testing. I have the following questions:

1. In the green block, I can control the output objects by selecting "queue's output - First Available." Can I find a corresponding function in processflow?
2. In processflow( red block) , I attempted to transport items using the Task Sequences feature. Even though I set Max Content to 1 on the Processor, the AGV keeps placing items regardless. Is there a way to make it wait until the Processor finishes before placing new items?

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.1.4

processflow

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Julie Weller commented · Aug 21, 2023 at 03:49 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-08-16T15:51:56Z

Natalie White answered Aug 16, '23

Hi @Proxima,

I'll begin by addressing your second question. It seems that your process flow was overriding the max content property you had set on your processor. One way to solve this issue is by acquiring your processors as a resource. Then, you can use a query to check whether they are empty before acquiring them.

"Processing" is a label that I added to each processor which is automatically set to 0. There are triggers on the processors that change this value to 1 upon entry and back to 0 upon exit. Your process flow will be very similar to your original process flow, just with some additions:

I've also added logic that moves items that have completed processing to a sink:

As for your first question, the queue is outputting the items to whichever processor has been acquired. You can change the query in the Acquire Resource activty, but right now it's just choosing any processor that is empty.

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