How to send items to multiple Fixed Resources in Process Flow?

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Matheus Rosa asked May 25 2016 at 7:46 PM Adrian Haws commented Jun 17 2016 at 9:55 PM

How to send items to multiple Fixed Resources in Process Flow?

I'm using Process Flow to make a transporter pick up items from a queue and take them to a rack. I want to expand the model now so that the transporter takes the items to 3 racks. How do I do that?

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FlexSim 16.0.1

process flow rack transporter task sequence send to port

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Answer 1 · 2016-05-25T20:32:21Z

Matthew Gillespie answered May 25 2016 at 8:32 PM Adrian Haws commented Jun 17 2016 at 9:55 PM

An easy way to do this would be to use a Fixed Resource list. In the attached model I have the 3 racks push themselves on a Fixed Resource list using the pickoption in their Pull Strategy field. The Process Flow then pulls from the Fixed Resource list when determining where it should go.

multitransportmultirack.png (298.5 KiB)

multitransportmultiracks.fsm (31.3 KiB)

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · May 25 2016 at 9:49 PM

@Matheus Rosa

I updated the model so that the transporter checks how many open spots there are before pulling the rack off the list. To do this I had to add an expression field (openSpots) to the Fixed Resource list (double click on FRList1 in the Toolbox). I also added a query to the "Pull Rack" Pull from List activity that says: WHERE openSpots >= puller.number.

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multitransportmaxcontentracks.fsm (31.4 KiB)

Matheus Rosa Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · May 25 2016 at 10:03 PM

I would like to know if it is possible to make the transporter unload all the 50 boxes in 1 movement, cause he is putting the items on my rack one by one even if he already has 50 boxes on him.

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Adrian Haws Matheus Rosa commented · Jun 17 2016 at 9:55 PM

@Matheus Rosa do you still need an answer to this last question?

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