Unloading on a conveyor

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Fabio asked Jan 2, '24 Jeanette F commented Jan 8, '24

Unloading on a conveyor

Good morning

We are currently working on a project of loading and unloading task sequences; in the attached model we need two operators to perform the loading and unloading operation simultaneously.

a. We need to transfer from Queue objects to the conveyor belt, using only one operator as a resource.

How could we reference the entrytransfer to do this operation?

b. The operators should be assigned to execute the tasks simultaneously, when the first box is unloaded on the Queue objects, only one operator should be assigned to each task.

Attached model

Carga_Descarga.fsm

Thank you very much!

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.2.3

task sequence

carga-descarga.fsm (62.9 KiB)

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Jan 08 at 09:58 PM

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Answer 1 · 2024-01-03T05:52:46Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Jan 3, '24 Jason Lightfoot edited Jan 3, '24

You can use output port connection from the queue to the entrytransfer and the standard sendtoport negotiation to control when it should happen. You can use the queue's transport dispatcher to reference an operator or distpatcher, or you can push to a list with the destination as a label and then use a process flow to pull from that list and unload to the destination. This is standard FlexSim behavior covered in the basic tutorials. Your colleagues at FlexSim Andina should have been able to assist you with this.

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