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How to update the capacity of the conveyor?

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My problem is as follows:

I'm trying to model a length variable conveyor. When the conveyor is full it must to increase it's length in order to increase its capacity. I get the way to increase the length it works good, but the problem is that despite of the conveyor gets longer wile the simulation its capacity is the same (one item). How can I do to increase its capacity in each length variation? Also, how can I do to see this visually? since i just can observe the original length in the model vieu until I move it manually...

Thanks a lot for your help.

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Adrian Haws avatar image Adrian Haws commented ·

@Albert Selfa It's not advisable to dynamically adjust the conveyor size. If you want to continue the item flow with increasing capacity, there are a couple workarounds that might have the functionality you're looking for. You could connect multiple conveyors together, each having a connection to the processor at the end, then use decision points to determine whether to send an item to the next conveyor or to the processor. However, what is the purpose of changing the conveyor length in your model? There might be another way to look at this.

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Albert Selfa avatar image Albert Selfa commented ·

@Adrian Haws

That's what we are trying to reach:

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AshjlgTE-s0mhdo7k5XOP-dM-MSpLw

And this are the two ways that we have tested:

Model A: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AshjlgTE-s0mhd8j98QvI-0AsRltLQ

Model B: extend-conveyorv11-170314-v10-17.fsm

Tanks a lot for your atention.

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I'm not sure about how to create that, as Adrian said, there's not really a good way to change a conveyor dynamically as far as I'm aware. Could you maybe have multiple entry and exit points / curved conveyors? Then just hide the ones that aren't being used and show the ones that are. Perhaps something like that could work possibly.

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