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Conveyor Intersection with Queue

I have two trunk lines that feed auto truck-loading conveyors. The trunk lines come in from the north. Pallets in groups of two from the same trunk line stop and move together to move to the east and load the truck.

I currently have queues below the conveyors that group the pallets into a 'bundle' of two before being released to the left. Sometimes the green pallets flow over the purple staged pallets. This cannot happen in real life.


Any better ideas of how to do this? Pallets also need to sometimes bypass this queue to continue down the trunk line (this can be random or round robin) .

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FlexSim 24.1.0
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Jeanette F avatar image Jeanette F ♦♦ commented ·
Is it possible to share your model or a sample model of this intersection?
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Makenna A avatar image Makenna A Jeanette F ♦♦ commented ·
The entire model is too big - but let me get a simple version made.

Thanks

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Makenna A avatar image Makenna A Jeanette F ♦♦ commented ·
How can i reduce the size of the model - is there a purge feature?


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Makenna A avatar image Makenna A Jeanette F ♦♦ commented ·

helpmodel.t

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Jason Lightfoot avatar image Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ Makenna A commented ·
The model file might be better.


Do you get exceptions when you run the model? We have warnings about slug building conveyors having transfers along their length, and invalid destinations when routing items on the conveyor.
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David Seo answered Jeanette F commented

@Makenna A

You should make TWO features to solve your issue.

And you can solve your issue.

1) Gathering ( batching as two items) - Combiner or Process Flow

2) Area Restriction in the conveyor event trigger option menu.

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could you post a small model with this shown?


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Jeanette F avatar image Jeanette F ♦♦ Makenna A commented ·

Hello @Makenna A,

The following does not implement perfectly what you are requesting but it is a start that you could fine tune some more.

help2_4.fsm

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