Send items to another conveyor

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Jose_antonio Ie asked Apr 23, '24 Jason Lightfoot edited Apr 25, '24

Send items to another conveyor

CP2_EntregaPulmonPausas_ReparteStations.fsm

Hello everyone,

I need you help. In the attached model, items are distributed in round robin mode between DP and stations 1 and 2.

What I'm looking for is that items go through station 1 until it will be saturated, then items must go through station 2 until station 1 will be available again and so on.

I hope I will be cristal clear with the question since English is not my home language.

Thanks in advance for your support.

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.1.0

conveyors decision points

cp2-entregapulmonpausas-repartestations.fsm (181.7 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2024-04-24T14:34:31Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Apr 24, '24 Jason Lightfoot edited Apr 25, '24

Here's one approach where station 'queue slots' are pushed to a list and the DP pulls them as items arrive. I've used labels on the stations for the priority and queue length and the DP has an array of stations containing them both.

cp2-entregapulmonpausas-repartestations_jl.fsm

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cp2-entregapulmonpausas-repartestations-jl.fsm (190.9 KiB)

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Jose_antonio Ie commented · Apr 25 at 06:01 AM

It works very fine!!!

Thanks a lot!

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Jose_antonio Ie commented · Apr 25 at 09:09 AM

No problem. Note that this scales easily in that you can use the same process flow with other decision points you add as instances. Each DP just needs the station array label and for the stations to have the same label names.

If you were to select and copy the DP and Stations to a new location, they will just work for the new location too, without any further modifications.

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