Stop Process in between

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Arun asked Nov 17, '23 Jason Lightfoot edited Nov 17, '23

Stop Process in between

Hi,
I have a model with 3 moulds with cycle times (30sec each) which will create items with a certain offset time. Items will transported from mould to 6 milling units(60sec each). Now when item is transferred to P5, the operator need to see whether P1 and P2 is in work. If it is, I need to call the operator to take any item from P1 or P2 (item about to complete the process is preferred) and transport item to P5 then item taken from P1/P2 has to place to its bay after P5 is loaded.

Note: I cant change route and consider itesm as wind mill blades, so practically transporter cannot go between p1 and p2 to load p5.

Also if there is any way to see remaining processing time of process would be helpful!

Thanks in Advance
Arun
Trial.fsm

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FlexSim 23.2.0

processortime transporting

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 17, 2023 at 03:59 PM

This is confusing - you seem to be saying that when you take something to P5 you have to also interrupt either P1 or P2 and take its work to P5 as well - but P5 can only process one item.

Or are you saying that to take something to P5 the jobs in either P1 or P2 need to be interrupted and pulled out of the way and placed back once the new item has passed through?

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Arun Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 17, 2023 at 05:17 PM

Sry for the confusion,
if i want to take something to P5 either P1 or P2 should be empty so that we can take item to P5 without disturb.

For eg: lets consider item "A" is processing in P1, Item "B" is processing in P2, now Item "C" had to be passed to P5 so i have to take either item A /B from respective processor and kept aside an then C has to pass to P5. after item A/B had to loaded again to its respective processor.

Hope it clears

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Answer 1 · 2023-11-17T17:49:15Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Nov 17, '23 Jason Lightfoot edited Nov 17, '23

The easiest thing is going to be to stop one of the machines , hide the part and then resume it later and unhide the part.

If you want to remove the part and then replace it you can adjust the process time as seen in the attached example.

InterruptProcessing.fsm

interruptprocessing.fsm (52.4 KiB)

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