How do I send a percent of one flow item to a specific rack?

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Robert Hambright asked Sep 9, '16 Robert Hambright commented Sep 9, '16

How do I send a percent of one flow item to a specific rack?

I want to create a flowitem, and then send it to the blue rack 25% of the time, to the red rack 60% of the time, and to the yellow rack 15% of the time. How can I do this?

Also, if there are two different flowitems created and brought to the same queue, can I also send the second item to different racks based on percentages?

Here is the model below: samplemodel.fsm

Thanks!

Rob

Software Version:

FlexSim 16.2.0

racks label distributions

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samplemodel.fsm (19.3 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2016-09-09T19:34:47Z

Sam Stubbs answered Sep 9, '16 Robert Hambright commented Sep 9, '16

You can send items to a certain port by percentage. This is a default option from the Send to Port picklist in the Flow tab of your Queue's properties. You simply select Random > By Percentage. And then fill out your percentage distribution. It would look something like this:

However if you want the percentages to be different based upon the type of item coming through. What you could do, is to create a table (where, for example, rows would be the percentage values for Blue, Red, Yellow, and Columns would be item types) and then have the Percent field instead call a function that grabs the number off the table. For example:

I've included an updated version of your model below showing these changes.

2334-samplemodel.fsm

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bypercentagetable.png (11.3 KiB)

2334-samplemodel.fsm (19.6 KiB)

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Robert Hambright commented · Sep 09, 2016 at 07:52 PM

Awesome! Thanks, Sam.

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