How to make to limit the number of items per conveyor?

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Mathilde DOUSSET asked Oct 10, '16 Matthew Gillespie commented Oct 10, '16

How to make to limit the number of items per conveyor?

simusequencage.fsm

Hi!

I would like limit the number of items on the conveyor .

I join you my model.

Thank you!

Software Version:

FlexSim 16.2.0

conveyor

simusequencage.fsm (11.8 MiB)

Answer 1 · 2016-10-10T08:33:09Z

Joerg Vogel answered Oct 10, '16

The conveyor system takes as many items as there is space available set by the conveyor type's parameters. You can control the items getting to a conveyor system by closing the input of the EntryTransfers or the output of the previous objects to the EntryTransfers. But there isn't anymore a parameter defining the capacity of the conveyor system. In ProcessFlow you can set a Zone over your system which measures the current stored capacity. You use this information to control the input of the EntryTransfer.

Answer 2 · 2016-10-10T08:06:53Z

Kari Payton answered Oct 10, '16 Matthew Gillespie commented Oct 10, '16

@Mathilde DOUSSET you can connect incoming items to a queue then connect the queue to the conveyor. On the queue settings you can set a maximum content to limit the number of items.

queue-settings.png (27.5 KiB)

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Mathilde DOUSSET commented · Oct 10, 2016 at 08:31 AM

So, I explain that I understood:

I take a queue near the conveyor, then I change "the maximum content"?

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