Transporter moving items with specific time PF

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Victor Alejandro HT asked Oct 10, '18 Victor Alejandro HT commented Oct 10, '18

Transporter moving items with specific time PF

Hi all,

I want that every 500 seconds a transporter moves 10 items from a queue to a sink. I tried to solve it with process flow, with this approach with no success. I attached the model.

Thanks in advance.

Software Version:

FlexSim 18.2.0

process flow transporter batch transport

pf.png (84.5 KiB)

transporter-con-tiempo-determinado.fsm (32.9 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2018-10-10T06:13:23Z

gilbert jerald answered Oct 10, '18 Victor Alejandro HT commented Oct 10, '18

@ Victor Alejandro HT ·

HI,

I have reattached your model with some changes on it.

1) In create tokens you have not set the destination where the token should create. Now it s been corrected.

2) In Queue 2 send to port I push the item to a list and in a process flow, I refer those items via process flow list to move the item from queue2 to sink through the transporter.

I have attached the model for your reference have a look at it.

transporter-support.fsm

Thanks

transporter-support.fsm (34.7 KiB)

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Victor Alejandro HT commented · Oct 10, 2018 at 01:36 PM

Thanks Gilbert, now it is running and moving one by one. If a need to move them ten by ten, what should I do? I have change the parameters in Create Tokens to one

and in Pull from list Request and Require number to ten but it is not moving the way I need

Thanks again.

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create-tokens.png (11.6 KiB)

pull-from-list.png (15.4 KiB)

Answer 2 · 2018-10-10T15:29:49Z

Jordan Johnson answered Oct 10, '18 Victor Alejandro HT commented Oct 10, '18

Here is a version of your model that moves all items at once:

transporter-con-tiempo-determinado-modificado.fsm

I changed the approach a little bit. I removed the Create Tokens activity. Only one token needs to pull from the list and acquire/release the transporter. However, you do need one token per item to load/unload things. So I used a Run Sub Flow activity, that creates one token per pulled item, to load and unload items. Hopefully, that makes sense.

transporter-con-tiempo-determinado-modificado.fsm (34.1 KiB)

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Victor Alejandro HT commented · Oct 10, 2018 at 04:46 PM

Hi @jordan.johnson and @gilbert jerald thank you very much for your ideas. At the end I made an hybrid of both approaches to exactly get what I want. I need that exactly every 500s the Transporter load the items so I use the Create tokens activity. I attached the final version of the model if you want to check it out.

Have a great day.

transporte-version-final.fsm

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transporte-version-final.fsm (34.6 KiB)

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