How to generate sequence of orders and pick orders one after another

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akhil M2 asked Sep 28, '18 Joerg Vogel edited Sep 28, '18

How to generate sequence of orders and pick orders one after another

Hi Folks,

I'm new to FlexSim community and need help to solve a small simulation problem, please provide assistance.

Problem: Suppose, we have 10 orders to pick and only 2 pick stations (from one pick station only one order can be picked at a time, after completion of running order next can be started). Each order contains 3 to 5 line items and each line item contains 5 to 10 quantities.After picking it will be staged in a queue and then segregated to distinct queues and wait unless all line items of that order are segregated and then complete one order will move to sink.

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FlexSim 18.2.0

order generation and

Answer 1 · 2018-09-28T11:40:22Z

Sebastian Hemmann answered Sep 28, '18 Joerg Vogel edited Sep 28, '18

Hi,

I would use a list (e.g. in ProcessFlow) for all your orders.

With starting your simulation run you can push all orders to the list (if in PF, then send 10 tokens to an "Push to List" Activity, the token can have information about items and quantities...) and set all information there. Now the machines can pull the order that is best at this moment, work on it and afterwards take the next one.

Hope you are familiar with Process Flow and find the List activitys in the library!?

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akhil M2 commented · Sep 28, 2018 at 12:08 PM

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for reply. I understood your logic and trying to implement. Meanwhile, can you please favor us to share one small model based on requirements so that it can help me if we stuck somewhere.

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Joerg Vogel commented · Sep 28, 2018 at 12:49 PM

here it is a similar approach:

maker-orders.fsm

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maker-orders.fsm (20.7 KiB)

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