Trigger when conveyor input port is green

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Yue Y asked Jun 14, '19 Braydn T converted comment to answer Jul 15, '19

Trigger when conveyor input port is green

Is there any trigger to use once the conveyor's input port turns green?

I am looking at on Entry trigger, does this trigger happens when an flow item starts entering or finish entering? The use case here it, I want to be notified once the conveyor is ready to load next item on it.

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I tried it myself, the trigger happens when the item starts entering. Is there any trigger used when the item finishes entering?

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FlexSim 19.1.0

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Joseph Gillespie commented · Jun 14, 2019 at 09:02 PM

Hi @Yue Y,

I don't think there is a trigger for that specific purpose, but there are probably other ways to do what you are trying. What are you trying to do more specifically? If you could upload an example model with the problem that would be especially helpful.

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Answer 1 · 2019-06-17T20:05:36Z

Joseph Gillespie answered Jun 17, '19

@Yue Y

The conveyor opens the input port when it goes from being blocked by an item to no longer blocked (an item on the conveyor's edge moves away and another item can be placed on the conveyor).

I'm still confused by what you are trying to do. You said that the external service will only allow the source to emit items if the input port is open. That is already the case; a source in FlexSim already will only emit items if the input port of the receiving conveyor is open. If it is not open, the source will not send items to the conveyor.

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