Production plant sequencing

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Jon Perez asked Jan 15, '24 Jason Lightfoot commented Jan 18, '24

Production plant sequencing

Good morning, I am trying to develop a production plant based on a model that the user Jason Lightfoot created. On the model Jason created, the references are created on a source randomly and then, when the parts needed to make a combination are available, the combiner creates a reference.

However, what I would like to simulate on my model is something different. I have 13 different raw material that combining them, 10 different references can be created. For that, I have created 13 sources (I do not know if the trigger is well defined, as it is the same time I am using the strascii parameter) with their respective amounts to differenciate the different kinds of raw material and, then, I would like the combiner to create all the references.

The problem is that when I run the simulation, the combiner does not start assemblying the raw materials and I do not know what I have done wrong.

It would be very helpful if someone could check the model to give me a solution.

"opportunisticcombiner" is the model created by Jason and "ProductionPlant" is the model I am trying to develop.

Thank you so much.

opportunisticcombiner.fsm

ProductionPlant.fsm

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FlexSim 23.2.1

task sequencing in process flow

productionplant.fsm (61.5 KiB)

opportunisticcombiner.fsm (58.0 KiB)

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Jon Perez commented · Jan 15 at 11:16 AM

I have already set the strascii numbers starting from 65 instead of from 1

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Jan 18 at 12:05 PM

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Answer 1 · 2024-01-15T11:30:41Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Jan 15, '24

"strascii(65)" and the subsequent numbers return the capital letters in the order of the alphabet.

You use the values 'V' through 'AH'. Since each source only creates one type, it would be easiest to simply use the respective string directly when assigning the label.

And since FlexSim does not have a way to generate colors associated with string values, you would have to create a color palette yourself if the items should be colored by the "PartNum" label.

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