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How to add a seperator unpacking delay?

Hey everyone,

I can't find any related questions, so I've made my own.

I would like to know if it's possible to manipulate the rate at which a seperator unpacks flow items by adding a delay of some sort? I don't want the boxes to be instantly following one another.

The process can be seen in my attached model. After the pallet has 5 boxes, it will go to a seperator and be unpacked.

Kind regards,

Brandon

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I managed to find a way to do this using the process flow and a decision point. It may not be the cleanest way, but it does what I want it to.

The moment the first item unpacks from the seperator, it will arrive at the decision point. This is used as the trigger event for the process flow. When this happens I close the output ports of the seperator and only open them again after a specified delay. Rinse, repeat.

If someone has a better solution to this, please let me know!

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@Brandon I

Without decision point also its possible

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Hey @Sudheer R

Thank you for the reply!

That's better than what I initially did. I didn't think of the seperator's 'On Exit' event. That simplifies it nicely for me. I will be using that method. Thank you =)

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