Is it possible to simulate a delay on a conveyor?

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Thomas James M asked Feb 18, '18 Thomas James M commented Feb 19, '18

Is it possible to simulate a delay on a conveyor?

Hi All,

I have a processor feeding into a conveyor and then feeding into a another processor ref below. Once a flow-item leaves the first processor a background test of 250sec takes place on the conveyor. Before the second processor can begin processing the flowitem, it must wait until this background test has been completed by the flow item on the conveyor (i.e. the 250 sec has elapsed since the flowitem entered the conveyor). This would mean that even if the flow item reaches the end of the conveyor, it will not process in the second processor until the 250sec background test is complete. I need to do this without altering the speed of the conveyor. Im aware that this could be done using an additional processor instead of a conveyor but this is not the best solution.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Tom

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.0.12

conveyor process flow delay activity

background-test.fsm (88.3 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2018-02-19T09:35:22Z

Monika Sokół answered Feb 19, '18 Thomas James M commented Feb 19, '18

Hello Thomas,

I have modified your model to solve your problem. I removed connection between Conveyor and second Processor and I control flow logic via ProcessFlow (as attached).

background-test.fsm

processflow.png (25.5 KiB)

background-test.fsm (33.0 KiB)

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Thomas James M commented · Feb 19, 2018 at 09:57 PM

Hi Monika,

Exactly what I was looking to do! Thank you very much!

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