Queues and operator

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Terra K. asked Jun 8, '17 Isaac Litster commented Jul 13, '18

Queues and operator

I have a main queue which is supposed to dispatch items in a batch of 8. There are 2 queues after that, and it takes the batch of 8 each. The 2 queues are manned by 1 operator each. When Items reached the main queue, I only want 1 operator to move forward and carry the 8 item and carry back to his own station. However, what my simulation does is the operator went and took the 8 items, and move between the 2 queues to distribute and ended up with 4 in each queues. Is there a way I could make it such that when items are ready to be dispatched, the first available operator moves and took his items to his own station, and if there is another batch, the second operator does the same?

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FlexSim 17.1.2

queue operator

Answer 1 · 2017-06-12T19:25:55Z

Sam Stubbs answered Jun 12, '17 Isaac Litster commented Jul 13, '18

It's a little hard to follow what's going on without seeing the model. But it sounds like you'd probably want to use a List to handle the logic instead of the default batching option. You could have the items be pushed onto a list when they first arrive in the first queue. Then set up a simple Process Flow that pulls the 8 items from the list, and acquires whichever operator you want to use, then use Process Flow to control the loading and unloading of those items with the operator you want to use.

If you're not familiar with Process Flow, I'd recommend looking into the the tutorials in the user manual. User Manual > Tutorials > Process Flow. Particularly the lesson on using Lists with Process Flow could be helpful for your situation.

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Terra K. commented · Jun 20, 2017 at 05:25 AM

Sorry, this is the example model, where the operators were supposed to carry the 8 items to go to his station instead of distributing to other station too

example2.fsm

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Isaac Litster Terra K. commented · Jul 13, 2018 at 02:55 PM

@Terra K.

Were you able to get your problem resolved?

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