Help with moving and processing items by groups

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XiomaraG asked Nov 18, '23 XiomaraG edited Nov 29, '23

Help with moving and processing items by groups

I want to simulate a Warehouse System. In the first part, it is supposed to received a group of pallets then it processes all the received pallets and a transporter has to pick all of them and organize them into racks.

I want to process all this entire group of pallets in a specific time given by a statistical distribution, pick them all up in a specific time and unload them all in a specific time, not separately but always together. Additionally, I need the transporter to unload all the requested pallets on the same slot in the floorstage because they are unloading the pallets randomly, as you can see:

I send the model so you can see how it works

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.2.0

warehouse loading unloading

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Joerg Vogel commented · Nov 19, 2023 at 08:47 AM

FlexSim is probably a wrong tool to for such conditions. You say a process lasts statically distributed an amount of time and this is what you want to set. But FlexSim measures time over a subset of actions. You can simulate your process. You take the time lasting this process. You adjust parameters of this process to get a total time that meets with your conditions by reducing staytime, increase speed, shorten distances. Then you simulate your model with these adjusted parameters to gather data that is important for you.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 22, 2023 at 11:36 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-11-19T23:04:31Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Nov 19, '23

You have not preassigned a slot to the items - if you do that they will enter that slot - at the moment you are using the 'Slot Assignment Strategy' of the rack which is set to random.

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