Clarification Needed

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Bruno E asked Dec 9, '18 Sebastian Hemmann edited Dec 9, '18

Clarification Needed

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could provide some clarification on some of my question on Flexsim 7.3.6 (university license).

I am currently building a Conveyors and Product Carriers simulation and I have a few questions.

Source

Assuming the product arrives every 140 seconds with a deviation of 15 seconds with a normal distribution, do I set the inter-arrivaltime to normal (140,15,0) and do I have to tick the arrival at time 0 box?

Combiner

Im not sure if this is a visual bug, but the items don't seem to be combining. How do I get the box on top of the pallet?

Separator

Currently I have it working with the combiner issue I am having, however how do I set it so, that the pallet returns to the queue and eventually to the conveyor and the box continues onto the next conveyor/ processor?

I have attached a copy of the simulation as well.

Regards,

Bruno E.

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Answer 1 · 2018-12-09T16:06:18Z

Sebastian Hemmann answered Dec 9, '18 Sebastian Hemmann edited Dec 9, '18

Hey, I´m sure it will be quite hard to get support for such an old version. I do not even have installed it.

But I think I can answer it:

Source: Yes you are right, this settings shall do what you want.

Combiner: It sounds as if you switched Inputports. Per default the Combiner takes the pallet from Port 1 and the Boxes from Port 2 and following.

Separator: The standard of the separator should be to release the Palet via Outputport 1 and the boxes via Outputport 2. So if you connect it right and take the "Operator Defalt Option" as Send to Port, everything should work.

I´m nearly sure all of this is to find somewhere in the user manual ;-) But as I´ve mentioned before, I don´t have installed this version!

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Bruno E commented · Dec 09, 2018 at 04:27 PM

Thank you for the reply, I have done what you just suggest and its working perfect.

However, I have one last issue.

With the Processor, I currently have a couple of triggers set, ONEXIT.

1- Set Item Type by Percentage, I have itemtype 1 at 64 % and Itemtype 2 at 36%

2- Set Color By Case, I set itemtype 1 to green and itemtype 2 to red.

However, the processor is painting the pallets as opposed to the boxes, how do I stop this?

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Sebastian Hemmann Bruno E commented · Dec 09, 2018 at 04:43 PM

Hey, try to set the Itemtype and the Color of "first(item)" because the Pallet is your item and the box is only "in" the Pallet.

On the other hand you can set the Stuff as soon as you separated the stuff again.

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