How to send to the first rack avaliable from a conveyor?

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Victoria M2 asked Jul 22, '20 Ben Wilson commented Aug 31, '20

How to send to the first rack avaliable from a conveyor?

I have a process that send items through a conveyor and the conveyor has to send it to the first rack avaliable, it stays there for some time and then goes through another conveyor..

How do I let the conveyor know which rack send itens to based on rack avaliability?

Conveyor_to_avaliable_rack.fsm

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FlexSim 20.0.3

conveyor rack flexsim 20.0.3

conveyor-to-avaliable-rack.fsm (52.9 KiB)

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Aug 31, 2020 at 10:06 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-07-22T19:06:28Z

tannerp answered Jul 22, '20

@victoria.m2,

You can set up Decision Points or other logic that will check how many subnodes each of the racks have. You can send the items to the racks that have the fewest items this way, or you can adjust the logic to look for something different. I updated your model to include an idea to get you started.

conveyor-to-avaliable-rack_2.fsm

check-rack-subnodes.png (18.0 KiB)

conveyor-to-avaliable-rack-2.fsm (90.3 KiB)

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