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Kon Kon D asked Nov 26, '20 Kon Kon D commented Nov 27, '20

How to set manual distance among the flowitems?

In this model, the combiner works to combine the boxes using the truck at target quantity of 20. Each truck travel the loop at 50m/min speed where the periphery of the loop is 750meter. So I set the process time at 15min in processor. But how can I set

1. the manual distance between the trucks so that they should travel the loop as 1meter apart?

2. the length of each truck as 5meter?

Attached file: Distance_problem1.fsm

For your kind regards. @Jeanette F

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.2.3

flexsim 20.0.3 distance problems

distance-problem1.png (75.4 KiB)

distance-problem1.fsm (39.1 KiB)

Joerg Vogel answered Nov 26, '20 Kon Kon D commented Nov 27, '20

You have to place enough truck objects on your conveyor system to achieve a distance from 1m apart.

The distance of objects is a parameter of Conveyor Type.

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Joerg Vogel commented · Nov 26, 2020 at 01:59 PM

You can edit and add Conveyor Types in Quick Properties if a conveyor object is highlighted (yellow bounding box) or in the toolbox.

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Kon Kon D commented · Nov 26, 2020 at 07:15 PM

Thanks @Jörg Vogel,

I got it. But I couldn't set the length of the flowitem(truck).

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Kon Kon D commented · Nov 26, 2020 at 08:42 PM

Just change the size in x axis to be 5.0

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Kon Kon D Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 27, 2020 at 04:44 AM

Thanks @jason.lightfoot

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