Hello everyone!!!
I am trying to connect one model to another in FlexSim separately. I don't know if there is any software, extension, plugin or something to synchronize both models. I would like to know if it is possible to do it in a separate simulation with another one without affecting the runtime and both simulations running at the same time.
Thank you.
I have 2 complex models that I need to integrate.
They must run together doing their own tasks but in certain moments I need to transfer container with pieces from one to another, download them and return the container to the first. This task takes some time (simulation time, eg. 1 hour). Both models are performing other tasks in parallel, I can't stop the first and wait for the other to return containers.
Both models have different complexity and can run at different speed its own Flexsim instance. Suppose Model 1 runs at a maximum of 500X and Model 2 is running at 100X.
If I have to wait 1 hour (simulation time) in the second model to return the containers, how can I synchronize both models ?
Is there a way to both Flexsim’s can connect internally to synchronize between instances so both runs at same speed executing their own logic ?
If you are able to predict key events that cross between the models then you could fast run to those but often times these events emerge in the model and you discover that one has already gone past that event time. This topic has been the subject of many papers over the years about Time Warp Simulation for multicore models, which last I heard involves rolling back to a restored state before continuing - something that FlexSim doesn't currently support.
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If you are able to predict key events that cross between the models then you could fast run to those but often times these events emerge in the model and you discover that one has already gone past that event time. This topic has been the subject of many papers over the years about Time Warp Simulation for multicore models, which last I heard involves rolling back to a restored state before continuing - something that FlexSim doesn't currently support.
hey Jason, can you please elaborate more on the communication hooks you are talking about or may be send an example model where you have communication sent between 2 different models ruinning on same computer. I have a similar requirement..where i have one model and a package is packed as end process in the simulation 1. I want to send the package data along with the timestamp it exited the pack station to other model for "Simulation 2" for further processing.
Hey @Sachin T, here is an older post that goes over different ways to communicate between FlexSim and other processes. I believe you can communicate between two instances of FlexSim (on the same computer or otherwise) using these methods. Also, I think one of the links in the post is broken, but it would have been pointed to something similar to the Categorial Index of the FlexScript commands in the documentation, specifically the commands in the Communication section.
I know for sure that you can communicate between models using sockets. The post mentions sockets from a post in the old forum, but I tried to make a more robust example more recently that I haven't posted about anywhere yet. I'll include it here (sockets_example_2023.zip) if you want to see another way to do it
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