how to alternate between queue's with one operator.

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Jelle B asked Mar 14, '17 Matthew Gillespie edited May 24, '19

how to alternate between queue's with one operator.

Hi everyone

Im a student working on a little project and im having difficulties working with Flexsim. (I have the educational version)

In my simulation, I have 2 different types of boxes. I need one operator to pick up box A located at queue A, put it on the conveyor, go to box B located at queue B and put it on the same conveyor. How can i get my operator to alternate between the boxes? I can only get my operator to pick them at random or just pick a bunch of boxes A and then a bunch of boxes B.

I have uploaded an example to show you exactly what i mean

any help would be appreciated.

Greetings

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.0.0

round robin

alternate.fsm (21.7 KiB)

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Jeff Nordgren commented · Mar 14, 2017 at 07:36 PM

@Jelle Bauters,

Have you tried asking your professor? They should be the first place to turn to ask for help.

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Jelle B Jeff Nordgren commented · Mar 15, 2017 at 02:05 PM

well, im doing my internship in a firm and the one who is helping me said that I have to simulate our idea so we could check the timing. but he has never worked with this type of software so I have to figure it out by myself

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Answer 1 · 2017-03-14T19:43:33Z

Jeff Nordgren answered Mar 14, '17 Jelle B edited Mar 15, '17

@Jelle Bauters

The easiest way to accomplish what you are asking is to go into the properties window of EntryTransfer1 and check the Pull Strategy check box and then select the Round Robin if Available option.

alternate-jn1.fsm

alternate-jn1.fsm (54.5 KiB)

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Jelle B commented · Mar 15, 2017 at 01:49 PM

wow, such an easy method, ive been trying to accomplish this for like 2 days.

Thank you very much

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