Change Load Capacity in process flow?

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Martin B6 asked Nov 25, '20 Ben Wilson commented Dec 1, '20

Change Load Capacity in process flow?

Hello!

The operator takes only 1 item at a time and stores it. My questions: how can I change the quantity? How can I change my model so that the operator puts all the products of an order (OrderID) on the rack at the same time? (if possible in a random slot). Could i do it with a token batch?

Entwurf_8_2.fsm

Thanks a lot!

Martin

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.2.3

process flow flexsim 20.2.3 rack storage capacity

entwurf-8-2.fsm (1.8 MiB)

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Dec 01, 2020 at 05:31 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-11-25T23:36:14Z

Joerg Vogel answered Nov 25, '20

Maybe you are able use the search tool of this site? A possible key phrase is ”load more”. There are some interesting answers and some attached models where you can learn a lot.

Racks or nowadays Warehousing is a new module since 19.2. You assign slots by a findslot method in a query. The method expects that you cast the item into a storage item. Then you can find a slot in the storage system. With an assigned slot you can identify the rack object and unload the item into the rack.

If your query does not return a random slot then you can find all available slots. The method returns an array of slots. Then you split one element of the array by a duniform statistical function over the range of first to the last element to assign this slot to an item to get stored into the storage system.

Answer 2 · 2020-11-26T12:22:31Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Nov 26, '20

I think you need to have one token for the storage job which has all the items you want to store listed on it as an array. That means you need to decide how to batch the items together into a single storage task.

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