How do I make the conveyor release one item at time?

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Victoria M2 asked Jul 21, '20 Ben Wilson commented Sep 1, '20

How do I make the conveyor release one item at time?

I want to create a buffer of five items in a conveyor and then when the sixth item arrives, the conveyor releases the first item in it.

I tried to do to it by using a custom conveyor, in the slug Builder section, but the thing is it only releases all at once.

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.3

conveyor flexsim 20.1.3 releaseitem

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Sep 01, 2020 at 10:25 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-07-21T16:36:38Z

tannerp answered Jul 21, '20 Benjamin W2 commented Jul 21, '20

@victoria.m2,

You can control the input/output ports on the conveyor to release one item at a time. I created an example of this where any time an item exits the conveyor, a trigger is fired that closes the conveyor's output port. The output is re-opened when you press the button in the dashboard. (Just an example; you can trigger the opening of the output port however you'd like.)

open and close conveyor output.fsm

closed-output-conveyor.png (13.3 KiB)

open-and-close-conveyor-output.fsm (41.3 KiB)

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Benjamin W2 commented · Jul 21, 2020 at 04:39 PM

Looks like Tanner beat me to the punch! Here is another example model with 2 slightly different implementations.5Conveyor.fsm

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5conveyor.fsm (47.6 KiB)

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