How to Pull from list when type change

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David Chan asked Apr 11, '18 David Chan commented Apr 17, '18

How to Pull from list when type change

Hi

I am modeling the following situation using processflow with List and would like to get advise.

A tote is used to pick up the same type of item of 10. When item type change, i would like to release the tote with whatever quantity that it has.

How do I use List to do it?

Thanks

David

Software Version:

FlexSim 18.1.0

list pull from list based on condition

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Apr 13, 2018 at 05:58 PM

Can you give some more details or post an example model? What do you mean by "when item type change"?

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David Chan Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Apr 14, 2018 at 01:17 PM

@Matthew Gillespie

I have enclosed the model.

There are two product token types. The tote token can pull any type of token but only one type at all time. The tote token should be released when a different type of token arrives.

Thanks

David

tote-example.fsm

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tote-example.fsm (25.5 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2018-04-16T23:14:40Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Apr 16, '18 David Chan commented Apr 17, '18

Here's one way you could do it using an Event Triggered Source and a Release Token activity.

tote-example-mg.fsm

tote-example-mg.fsm (28.5 KiB)

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David Chan commented · Apr 17, 2018 at 01:58 AM

@Matthew Gillespie

Thanks. I have added in to create a Partition ID at the Push to List and reading from the global label currentType at the Pull from List so that I could pull only the same type in the same tote.

The model is attached.

11497-tote-example-mg-pickonlysametype.fsm

David

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11497-tote-example-mg-pickonlysametype.fsm (28.7 KiB)

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