How to Load into a Container at a Conveyor Station

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Jason Merschat asked Jul 28, '18 jing.c commented Jul 30, '18

How to Load into a Container at a Conveyor Station

I have a basic conveyor that I am trying to load into a Tote at a Station on a conveyor. Basically, what I want to do is:

Tote arrives at a Station on a conveyor (ok)
This arrival Operator to Pull from a Queue and process the unit (ok)
When done the Operator Loads the unit into the Tote (not ok)

I cant seem to figure out how to load into that Tote using Process Flow. I can Load to the Station but not into the Tote. I also cannot locate the Tote effectively in the Tree Model relative to the Station to reference it.

Using 18.2.0 BETA

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-29T01:58:05Z

jing.c answered Jul 29, '18 jing.c commented Jul 30, '18

Hi, @Jason Merschat

I attached a sample, is that what you want? If so, you only need to set the "station" of Unload Activity to the container(tote).

loadintotev181bychj.fsm

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Jason Merschat commented · Jul 29, 2018 at 02:48 PM

Interesting - I was looking at your model and trying to determine where the tote was designated as a token resulting in token.tote … iI see it is created in the PF source. So that's the link! a 3D object created in the 3D model can be turned into (assigned) a token reference for PF through the Source OnArrival method. Got it. Thanks!

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jing.c Jason Merschat commented · Jul 30, 2018 at 12:26 AM

Yes, That is the important method to link the PF with 3d object.

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