How to prioritize processor in single stream process

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Kevin L4 asked May 01 2019 at 10:54 PM Braydn T converted comment to answer Jun 25 2019 at 6:40 PM

How to prioritize processor in single stream process

Hi FlexSim user,

I have a question regarding how to prioritize a processor from a single stream process.

Per image below, processor 19 and 14 does the same task, but I want to send the product to processor 19 first, then fill out processor 14, at the same time, once a product went through processor 14, processor 19 will just let it pass. The same logic applies to processor 15 & 20.

Is there any way I can do that without using Process-Flow?

PS1: I know the process seems odd, but that's the situation I am facing.

PS2: I am using FlexSim 18.1.1

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Thank you

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Joshua S commented · May 03 2019 at 8:36 PM

Do you have a flow chart of some kind for this process? The logic for this starts at items exiting Processor 10. Does the item move on to Processor 17 then processor 19, or go right to processor 19. If items are processed at processor 14, do they skip processor 17 and 19? Does Processor 17 act as a buffer, so if there are items in processor 17, then items should be processed at 14?

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Kevin L4 Joshua S commented · May 03 2019 at 9:06 PM

Hi Joshua,

Thank you for replying, sorry I didn't make it clear. I used the green processor as a section of conveyor, so I can easily identify how many sections I need in the process.

Let's ignore processor 15 & 20 for now. Processor 14 and 19 do the same thing, what I am looking for is: when an item arrived position 10, it will look for processor 19 first, if 19 is open, then go through 14 (only apply 10s through time instead of 30s of processing time) to 19. If 19 is processing, the next item will be processed by 14, and when it arrived 19, it will simply go through since it's been processed by 14 already.

I hope this answers your question.

-Kevin

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Answer 1 · 2019-05-03T21:23:13Z

Joshua S answered May 03 2019 at 9:23 PM

@Kevin L4,

See if this is the logic you are going for. I added triggers to Processor10 and process time by case for processor 14 and 19. Also I shrunk down the objects so you can see the flow.

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