How can I pick the items of a specific order?

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FRANCESCO S2 asked Nov 15, '20 Jeanette F answered Nov 19, '20

How can I pick the items of a specific order?

Hi everyone, in my model I create some orders in the table "global History", and the task executer goes, following a path, next the racks and the robotic arm picks the items. But it goes from rack to picking Area1 everytime that it picks one item instead I would like that it picks all item of one order and than it goes to picking area to put them on pallet.

can anybody help me to modify the process flow to do that?

elci 2 alb_autosave.fsm

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FlexSim 20.2.0

picking order picking task executers robotic arm

elci-2-alb-autosave.fsm (171.4 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2020-11-19T00:30:22Z

Jeanette F answered Nov 19, '20

Hello @FRANCESCO S2,

In order to do this I took your last subflow and divided in two, so that the picking portion and the loading to pallet portion were separated. I added a label to the tokens that saved the total number of items that were in the order and I used this label as the quantity in a batch activity at the end of the picking portion of the subflow. This would make all the tokens wait to be dropped off at the pallet until all of the items had been picked.

The label TotQty was created using a assign label activity and a custom code that summed the QtyOrd label array.

Here is the adjusted model for your reference.

elci-2-alb-autosave (1).fsm

elci-2-alb-autosave-1.fsm (173.8 KiB)

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