Simultaneous orders to an operator

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JoseVM asked Mar 3, '20 Braydn T edited Mar 4, '20

Simultaneous orders to an operator

Hello everybody,

I am working with a relatively simple manufacturing process and I have some problems at the end of it. I have two different type of objects (blue cylinders and green cylinders) and I would like an operator to load two blue cylinders from a queue, unload them in a combiner, and then load two green cylinders from other queue, and unload them in the same combiner. The order in which the products are loaded/unloaded is indifferent, the operator should just take the first pair available.

To do that I tried to simulate it in PF with using event-triggered sources and planning two parallel process for objects from one queue and another, but the experiment did not work. I attach the flexsim model in order to ilustrate it better (flexsimmodel.fsm). I think I am focusing it with a wrong approach. I wonder if someone could help me to find the solution.

Thanks in advance,

José

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.0.8

operators orders simultaneous

flexsimmodel.fsm (96.1 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2020-03-03T17:26:30Z

Braydn T answered Mar 3, '20 Braydn T edited Mar 4, '20

@José Ignacio MN

It seems like modeling this in 3D would be much easier.

3d.fsm

3d.fsm (97.8 KiB)

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JoseVM commented · Mar 04, 2020 at 12:38 PM

First of all, thanks Braydn for your reply.

I used PF because the next step in the simulation is to set exactly the same process to "Soldador2", but transporting the two pairs of items to the Combiner2, and I couldn't find a way to set that logic with 3D model

Can you imagine a way to do that in a simple way? I can't find the way to link an operator to a queue in function of the output port.

I hope I have been clear in my approach.

Thanks in advance!

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Braydn T JoseVM commented · Mar 04, 2020 at 02:34 PM

@José Ignacio MN So you want to fill Combiner1, and after its done then fill combiner 2? does combiner 2 need pallets also? If soldador2 doesnt have work, can he be filling Combiner2 even if Combiner1 is not full yet?
The reason why I said 3D would be easier is FlexSim behaves better with combiners if a Queue feeds them instead of Process Flow. So if you want to use process flow, I would add another queue for each combiner, have that queue connected with an A port connection to the combiner, and then have the operator move the items to that queue using process flow. You can hide the queue under the combiner and it will look like he is loading it directly into the combiner.

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