How to model a time elapsed conveyor?

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Hitesha N2 asked Mar 23, '19 Joerg Vogel commented Mar 29, '19

How to model a time elapsed conveyor?

Is there any way, I can model a conveyor which moves once a particular time is lapsed?

To explain, Suppose items on the conveyor at their respective stops are getting processed for say 10 mins. They will wait at the stop for 10 mins and then all the items on the conveyor would move to their next stop once 10 mins is completed.

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FlexSim 19.0.1

conveyor

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Joerg Vogel commented · Mar 24, 2019 at 08:58 AM

The conveyor type is set to accumulating by default. If you edit the conveyor type over the button signed with 3 dots in the Quick Properties, you can deactivate accumulating and all items are stopped simultaneously.

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Hitesha N2 Joerg Vogel commented · Mar 27, 2019 at 12:58 PM

@Jörg Vogel Thanks for the reply. I will try to better explain my question with a dummy model (PFA)

So in the model, source will generate part every 5 mins and it will be sent on Conveyor1. It will stop at DP1 untill 11 mins. Once the part has waited at DP1 for 11 mins, it will move to the next stop (DP2). It will again wait on DP2 for 11 mins. When the model is run for sometime, there will be parts at almost all the stop. All the parts will be advanced to their next stops after 11 mins together.

To model this condition, should I use slug builder feature of conveyor (Time elapsed feature?) or there is some other way to model this condition of conveyor?dummy.fsm

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dummy.fsm (34.1 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2019-03-27T15:06:55Z

Roi Sánchez answered Mar 27, '19 Hitesha N2 commented Mar 28, '19

Hi @Hitesha N2, look at the attached model and check if this is what you are looking for. I used Process Flow to control every time an item arrives to a DP and stop it during 11 minutes and resume it again.

conveyor-logic.fsm

conveyor-logic.fsm (34.8 KiB)

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Hitesha N2 commented · Mar 28, 2019 at 03:31 AM

This should work.

Thank You.

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