Link 3 differents process together : Synchronise them

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Thomas Darcheville asked Jul 2, '24 Allister Wilson answered Jul 3, '24

Link 3 differents process together : Synchronise them

Hello,

I have a situation in my model that looks like this:

Three different processors working with different cycle times:
- Processor 1: 15 hours of cycle time
- Processor 2: 50 minutes of cycle time
- Processor 3: 80 minutes of cycle time

I want them to work as one unit. This means that when a processor is without a product, it should stop the other processors and wait for a product to be able to resume all of them. The idea is to have the three processors act as a single synchronized unit.

I haven’t found a native way to achieve this in FlexSim. I am considering using a process flow, but I anticipate that duplicating it for many equipment instances will take time. Do you have any ideas on how to approach this? Alternatively, if there’s an option in custom code to pause and resume cycle times, I’d like to explore that.

Thank you for your assistance!

procesor synchronize

Answer 1 · 2024-07-03T08:30:49Z

Allister Wilson answered Jul 3, '24

Hello Thomas,

I would probably use an object process flow, to avoid having to duplicate any logic.

In the attached example, each processor attached to the process flow has a group name associated with it.
It will require all processors in that same group to have an item before it can run.

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