How to model a palletizing operator to handle own work

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David Chan asked Nov 11, '17 Jordan Johnson edited Nov 13, '17

How to model a palletizing operator to handle own work

Hi

I have a scenario where there is a group of palletizing operator. Once an operator starts to work at one station, he will need to finish the full pallet before he can go to other palletizing station. Each operator will take care of their own station, hence they are not allowed to cross over to other station to assist.

Look forward for some advise on this

Regards

David

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.2.3

operator handle own work

Answer 1 · 2017-11-13T16:38:28Z

Jordan Johnson answered Nov 13, '17 Jordan Johnson edited Nov 13, '17

palletizingoperator.fsmHere's a model that seems like it's what you are looking for. It has combiners that push pallets of items to a List. It also has a TE Process Flow, that looks like this:

Each attached operator pulls a pallet from the list, travels to it, works on it, then moves it to the queue. Note that the list block references the global list in the toolbox.

palletizingoperator.png (13.5 KiB)

palletizingoperator.fsm (31.7 KiB)

Answer 2 · 2017-11-13T08:15:38Z

Raja Sekaran answered Nov 13, '17 Raja Sekaran edited Nov 13, '17

Hi @david.chan,

Here is the Link. You can achieve this using Resource-Shared Assets by not releasing the operator until it finishes the full pallet.

I hope this will help you

Thanks.

Answer 3 · 2017-11-13T06:33:17Z

Joerg Vogel answered Nov 13, '17

You set an operator in an utilize task and the needed reference object is set to the last item to process. Then you use the freeoperators command to set the operator available again. You have to parse the last item reference into the command to free only the right operator.

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