Use batching and pulling to reduce setup time

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thl23564 asked Dec 28, '24 Ralf Gruber edited Jan 9, '25

Use batching and pulling to reduce setup time

Hello,

i have 3 different Items running through a "washing station". That station has setup time, when the "Form" Label changes. The 3 different Types (Form) are seperated into 3 Queues that perform batching.
My idea is that there is a queue (Q_WashProcess) that pulls one batch and only pulls the next batch, when its empty.

I cant find a way where the station switches between "Forms" so often, that its spending most amount of the time in "setup"

Sadly i have no experience with ProcessFlow
Some help would be greatly appreciated

Software Version:

FlexSim 24.2.2

queuing

5 |100000

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Answer 1 · 2025-01-08T07:24:12Z

Ralf Gruber answered Jan 8, '25 Ralf Gruber edited Jan 9, '25

thl23564,

attached is a sample model of how I understood your question. The three upstream queues collect a batch of 5 items, the downstream queue pulls the batch with the longest waiting time.

The "Specific Item Label" Pull Requirement has been modified to take only items with the same type label already present in the queue. If it is empty, it can take any type label value.

Does that help?

BatchingPullingSample.fsm

batchingpullingsample.fsm (28.3 KiB)

5 |100000

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