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Omar Aguilera Rico asked Emily Hardy edited

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I'm trying to make five pieces come together in the conveyor and only release the five pieces, the first one that gets together releases the pieces. I'm thinking that this can be done with the MergeController only that I have not been able to do it. Can you tell me if the easy way is to do it over there? model.fsm

FlexSim 18.0.4
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David Seo avatar image David Seo commented ·
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@Omar Aguilera Rico

You should connect exactly the conveyors using snap On when drag and drop the conveyors.

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Omar Aguilera Rico avatar image Omar Aguilera Rico David Seo commented ·

Thanks for the support! I already understood why it does not work for me.

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Jeff Nordgren avatar image Jeff Nordgren Omar Aguilera Rico commented ·

@Omar Aguilera Rico,

What solution did you come up with? I'm curious as to how you handled it.

Thanks.

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You can use Area Restriction pick options to hold the 6th item from moving until the 5th item has cleared. If the 6th item hasn't arrived at the end of the conveyor by the time the last item in the slug has cleared, then it won't go out with that slug.

merge-controller.fsm

You can also use the MergeController's lane clear table to minimize the gap between the slugs:

merge-controller-lane-clear-table.fsm


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