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Separation Activities

Hi, I have a problem with separation activity, in my model I have to separate some products (14 products). I used one conveyor and twelve operators. Firstly they separated correctly 3 products but they move out of the zone that should operate (zone that other operators separate same products), in other words one operator takes all products separated by others, I just want them to stay on their own station and separated only when products appear in from of him. Sorry for my English, thanks for your attention.

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I'm sorry I don't think I understand correctly what you are trying to do. If you don't want all of the operators to move than change the "Acquire: Plaza Total" so that they aren't all acquired. Also it doesn't seem like you have any labels on the tokens or the flow items. By adding labels it will be easier to know what type of flow items they are and then you can add triggers in process flow to say where items should be sorted and by which operators.


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@ferny_alexis.gna,

I made some changes to your model and it runs, somewhat. Like @zachary.h mentioned though. it's not very clear from your description exactly what is supposed to happen in your model. If I understand right, you are batching 20 items together and then batching those 20 batched items again into another batch of 20. So you have 20 items batched into 1 and then 20 of those items are again batched into 20. Is that right? Any additional information that you can give us will help us to be able to help you properly

Thanks.

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Ferny Alexis GNA avatar image Ferny Alexis GNA commented ·

thanks for your answer, can you explain me how you send items by one by one? I don't understand this part. Also I don't understand label Indexnum to which it refers?. Thanks for your attention and help :)

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Jeff Nordgren avatar image Jeff Nordgren Ferny Alexis GNA commented ·

@ferny_alexis.gna,

In the PF (Process Flow) block "Batch of 20", just before assigning a label called "IndexNum" is where all the "individual" tokens (and their associated model flowitems) are combined. That creates an array of 20 for the token.items label. So to reference each one individually, I create a label on each token (the token that has all 20 flowitems referenced in it) called "IndexNum". I use that label to be able to reference each individual flowitem in the "Start Processing" routine.

In the "Start Processing" routine, I first increment the value of "IndexNum" (it was initialized, as per above, to zero) so that in the PF blocks that follow it can reference the specific flowitem being worked on. And it repeats this for each item in the token.items array. When it has finished processing all of the items in the array, it will exit the Start Processing routine and move on to the next batch of 20.

I'm hoping that is making some sense to you? Is this how you want it to operate? If it's not right, please supply us with additional information about your circumstances so that we can give you additional help.

Thanks.

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Ferny Alexis GNA avatar image Ferny Alexis GNA commented ·

From your answer, I need one item that transform in 14 items different or more, then in a conveyor all items are separated and grouped by operators in the same groups or types, for example boxes with boxes, cylinders with cylinders. It is necessary separated with operators

This video seem as my model. (min 1:10)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNEqLegDEno

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jeff Nordgren avatar image Jeff Nordgren Ferny Alexis GNA commented ·

@ferny_alexis.gna,

I have to admit, I'm really not understanding what it is you are looking to do with this question. I guess I don't understand your processing or model flow needs.

Could you please supply more information on how you want the model to handle what you are describing?

Thanks.


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