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stop moving item on conveyor stations

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I have a conveyor with several stations, items flow in a linear fashion, I placed photo eyes to limit the number of items at any given station, stations have different cycle times, the logic of the photo eyes works, but if a station completes its cycle before the next station, the flow item moves to the space in between subsequence photo eyes, how can I have a station to move the item only if the next station is empty? meaning that it is blocked until the next station is open

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You can accomplish this using the Acquire Area and Release Area pickoptions in the Station's triggers. In the attached model I made a new Station type (AcquiringStationType) that uses the Acquire Area pickoption in its On Process Finish trigger to acquire the next station it's connected to. Then in the On Continue trigger it releases the area it currently has.

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thank u Matthew for your answer. But in this model we will get state of station as idle instead it should show blocked state. How do we control this ?

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