I want to simulate a processor pulling a specific number of items (12) from a conveyor and pushing the processed items onto another conveyor.
@Evroy A, This may not be the best way to do it, but I've inserted a photo eye as well as a queue. The photo eye sends the items to a list, then in Process Flow I have a token pulling 12 items from that list and sending them to the queue (which acts as a buffer) to send the items into the Processor. It's just an idea, but you might be able to work with it.
Here's the model: processor-twelve-items.fsm
@Tanner Poulton, apologies for not responding sooner as I just got time to look back at this. As you said it may not be ideal but its better than what I could've come up with and I'm grateful. How steep is the learning curve for people with little to no experience with simulation software?
If you go through the tutorials, they will give you a basic idea of how to use the software. It's still a hard learning process, but with anything with simulating, the more data and information you have on a system you want to simulate, the easier the whole process will be.
So I've tried to make a few edits to see if I could get the items to remain on the line instead of piling on the queue as I want to display what the bottlenecks would look like and I edited the process flow (amateurishly of course) to get it to work - somewhat.
Any pointers? @Tanner Poulton @Joshua S
Here it is: process-12-unload-1.fsm
So when an item arrives at the end of the conveyor, do you want it to be processed immediately? Or do you want it to wait for 11 more items to be processed at the same time? There's a number of ways we could set this up, but it really just depends on what exactly you need to simulate. Maybe you could explain what needs to happen with a little more detail and we'll figure it out.
You hit the nail on the head. I'd like for the the item to wait for the other 11 and then process all 12 at the same time.
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