Items inside totes in a rack

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Lambert asked Oct 7, '24 Felix Möhlmann commented Oct 8, '24

Items inside totes in a rack

Hi,

I have created a rack with 3 levels and 1 slot per bay, and then filled it with empty totes.

How can I get flow items inside those totes? How can I reference them in the rack?

Then, I would also like to pick the full totes (once they have reached a certain amount of items inside). How could I do this too?

Thank you

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FlexSim 24.2.1

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Answer 1 · 2024-10-08T06:25:49Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Oct 8, '24 Felix Möhlmann commented Oct 8, '24

You can refer to the totes as subnodes of the rack. But that would be cumbersome for the purpose of assigning items to them. I'd push the totes to a list and assign items to them in a Process Flow. A simple example model is attached.

totes-in-rack-example.fsm

totes-in-rack-example.fsm (54.9 KiB)

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Lambert commented · Oct 08 at 05:14 PM

Thanks @Felix Möhlmann , that works perfectly.

One last question, how can I do to pick one tote at random from the list?

Right now I am using:

WHERE Type == puller.item.Type ORDER BY Type == puller.item.Type DESC

but this always pulls the same tote from the list until the tote is full.

I guess I need to change the ORDER BY clause, but I don't know how.

In other words, I would like to fill several totes with the same type at the same time (and not completely fill one tote for each type and then take another empty tote for that type).

Thanks again!

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Felix Möhlmann Lambert commented · Oct 08 at 05:23 PM

WHERE Type == 0 OR Type == puller.item.Type ORDER BY RAND()

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