How to create a production schedule to pull from different ports

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Laura H3 asked Mar 25, '19 Braydn T converted comment to answer Jun 21, '19

How to create a production schedule to pull from different ports

My model is simulating a bakery whereby 1 production run of a product pulls a different tray type then different variations of ingredients.

Is there a way to do this whereby the user can select what product is being made then this happens for a set amount of time?

Thanks

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tannerp commented · Mar 28, 2019 at 08:57 PM

You could implement a button on a dashboard for this if you wanted to update the model's product type in real time. This would require some advanced coding and setup, though. Otherwise, I would recommend using statistics and other data to estimate how much of each product you will run in a set amount of time and then building this into the model so that it can adjust without a user updating it. Is there a particular reason you need the user to select which product is being made?

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Laura H3 commented · Apr 01, 2019 at 08:50 AM

Hello @Tanner Poulton,

Thanks for your response.

My model represents a muffin production line where there are 3 product changes over 24 hours.

I have attached an updated version, the thing is I don't want to set how much the model can make because that's the data I'd like to run off once completed.

The only way I can see around it is the tray (tote) source going into a combined mixer depositor processor, then the processor takes ingredients via production run 1, 2 and 3 as per the global table when the tote is 1, 2 or 3. The only thing I need to do is set the timings on the tote arrival but I'm not sure how to execute this. Unless there is a better way

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Answer 1 · 2019-04-18T20:03:24Z

Jeff Nordgren answered Apr 18, '19

@Laura H3,

Attached is your model with the changes that I've made. I'm not sure I totally understand what is supposed to happen in the model. So you will have to take a look at it and see what needs to change.

Rather than sending the ingredients to three separate queues, I attached them directly to the Mixer. That way, it allows the ingredient table to feed the Mixer properly.

Then after Sparator1, I added Combiner1. Because my guess is that you want all of the ingredients to be combined into 1 flowitem, right? I maybe could have done that somewhere else but I chose to combine the ingredients into one flowitem there.

I also create 5 totes in Tray store 4 OnReset and then use this queue to feed the Mixer through input port 1. And at Separator 1, I send the tote back to the Tray store 4 queue.

Please let us know what else need to be fixed or if I have it totally wrong.

Thanks.

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