Service Layout - Creation and randomness

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samsimulation asked Jan 27, '24 Felix Möhlmann answered Jan 29, '24

Service Layout - Creation and randomness

Greetings Everyone,

Firstly thank you for being a strong support for using Flexsim

service layout.fsm:-

My Question

I'm trying to create a simple service manufacturing layout

First question - how do i create a pallet and box together coming from the source (background- for a service based lets say it's an assembly coming in for example lets consider as an gear for service repair.)

2nd Question - Now since there are 2 parts - (Box and pallet) - i want to separate them using separator and put in different queues (background- what i want to here is lets gearbox came got inspected at the workstation and then disassembled at the separator for its repair and the parts divided go in differen queues )

3rd question - Since I'm trying to work on service repair - in service repair of a part/assembly we do't know which part coming will have which problem, how do i bring this randomness in my model, for example box and pallet are 2 parts of 1 model, some parts go to queue 1 and some parts go to queue 2

Thank you everyone, please try to help me here at the earliest.

I've attached my model for reference.

Thank you for your time and efforts!

Software Version:

FlexSim 24.0.0

separator creation service

screenshot-2024-01-26-224753.png (231.6 KiB)

service-layout.fsm (27.7 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2024-01-29T08:10:43Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Jan 29, '24

Here's a post that describes methods to create a pallet with boxes on it.

https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/153731/setting-of-source.html

In the same code that creates the boxes, you can add a label do them using a statistical distribution (for example "bernoulli()", which determines their state (Ok, Not Ok). Use this label in the "Send to Port" option of the combiner to send those boxes to different queues.

service-layout_1.fsm

service-layout-1.fsm (28.0 KiB)

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