Creating Part on Pallet with Process Flow

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Michelle Ebersole asked Oct 31, '16 Regan Blackett edited Nov 1, '16

Creating Part on Pallet with Process Flow

I have a model in which pallets move around a conveyor and parts are loaded/unloaded on the pallets. I am creating pallets in various starting locations using a process flow, but would like them to already have a part on them. Is there a way to do this without sending each part/pallet through a combiner?

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-01T15:40:40Z

Regan Blackett answered Nov 1, '16 Regan Blackett edited Nov 1, '16

@Michelle Ebersole

I would do this with a couple of back to back 'Create Object' activities. Let your first Create object create a pallet into some model destination like a Queue:

Note the Label assignment to 'pallet' so I have a label on the token that points to the pallet this activity made.

Then follow that with another 'Create Object' activity that creates your boxes into the pallet:

This will create 4 boxes into the pallet created during the previous step, no combining required. References to all the boxes created by this activity will be stored in the 'box' label in case you need to manipulate the boxes late on down the road.

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Matt Long commented · Nov 01, 2016 at 04:08 PM

You can use Assign to or Insert at Front of with regards to creating the items. They will have the same behavior in this instance. Insert at Front of only behaves different when using something like a loop and the label you're assigning to already has data on it.

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