material-move-model.fsm I have a process where material ""token" moves to room with three lanes. If all three lanes are full with other flows that material cannot move into room until a lane is open. I have thought of using processors that will only accept one unit. Is this the only way. see attached visual Process Flow for better understanding.
There are two easy ways to do this:
1. Zones
With zones you can section off portions of the Process Flow and limit how many items can enter. Here I set the "Lane 1" zone to only allow 1 item at a time:
For more info on zones, see this article from the manual: Zone
2. Resources
Tokens have to wait to acquire resources, like "Lane 2" for example. After one token has acquired "Lane 2" all the other tokens must wait until it has released it until another token can acquire the resource.
If all of your lanes are identical to each other, you can actually simplify your model even more with resources. You can simply set the number of resources to 3 (representing 3 lanes) and only three tokens will be able to acquire them at a time. You can set this up like so:
Here's a modified version of your model that uses this solution: materialmovemodelanswer.fsm
For more info on resources, see this article from the manual: Resource
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