We have floor storage in a room. Only one item (Box or pallet) can go in one location. Additionally, we organize so that boxes go in one row and pallets in another. In my test model I tried to make this work but I was unsuccessful. Can someone help? material-storage-test.fsm
Floor Storage Rack as a Warehousing object:
Please deactivate: Use as Fixed Resource on Flow tab of Rack object.
Paint the slots with tool of Warehousing library. You can use any label name. Default name is "Type". You set a different values e.g. {1,2}. You set to your items labels named exactly as you use for your painted slots "Type" or any other name and the same values. 1 for box, 2 for pallet or vice versa.
The Assign Slot Strategy function source code after the header needs only a query to identify a slot and an assign slot statement for the Storage.Item.
Storage.Slot slot = Storage.system.findSlot( "WHERE slot.slotItems.length < 1 AND slot.Type = $1 ORDER BY slot.levelID ASC" ,0,item.Type); storageItem.assignedSlot = slot;
with
slot.SlotItems.length < 1 // only one item per slot
slot.Type = $1 // lambda parameter $1 = item.Type == slot.Type //painted label
See answer for query slots in Storage.System, too!
Thank you. If the FlexSim team is looking for improvements it would be great to have an easier way to have this task occur. This is a very common occurrence in warehouses where there is floor storage and they organize by type. I could see a setting in the floor storage properties asking for how many items per each cell and by type; just as you answer makes it happen.
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