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Place empty totes into the sink

Hi Folks,

In the attached model, the operator will randomly pick one item from the tote on the racks and place it into the queues. Right now, he will put empty tote into the queues, too. How to let him put empty totes inside the sink?

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FlexSim 19.1.1
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Your are on a good way. Your own tasksequences deal with the boxes in the totes in the OnEntry trigger. I would here choose already the output port number randomly and directly without evaluating the SendTo Port function. The Send To Port function can deal with the item that entered the rack and this is the tote. If you connect the rack with the sink and you choose randomly the output port numbers for the boxes from the output port numbers of the queues, you are done.

You should choose "Do Not Release Item" in the minimum Dwell Time function, because you are releasing the tote (your item in the rack) in the OnEntry trigger.


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