FloWorks Tutorial 2.1 is not working

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Yogesh H asked Dec 3, '20 Ben Wilson commented Dec 8, '20

FloWorks Tutorial 2.1 is not working

In FloWorks tutorial 2.1,

a) Flow of product is not taking place

b) Object flowpipe2: 'On product out change' trigger on 'Close Inputs and Open Outputs' flow on Object Receiving Tank is not working

c) As per instructions given in the manual 'On product change' Product flow is moving to Flowsink

I am attaching model for your reference.

simple pipeline tutorial.fsm

Thank You

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.2.3

flexsim 20.2.3 FloWorks floworks tutorial 2.3 simple pipeline

simple-pipeline-tutorial.fsm (34.0 KiB)

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Dec 08, 2020 at 02:53 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-12-03T12:59:03Z

Patrick Zweekhorst answered Dec 3, '20

Hi @Yogesh H,

In one of the recent updates the way the OnOutputProductChanged was updated a little bit. This trigger now fires on time 0 in this model (since product wants to flow from the pipe to the tank). Since this trigger closes the input port of second tank, nothing is able to flow from the pipe to the tank. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Updating this tutorial is on the dev list now.

One thing you can do for now is to start with some initial content in the second tank. Having some content in this tank at the start will make sure that you model is able to run. This is because with the initial content the OnEmpty trigger will fire at some point. Attached is your model where I changed the initial content of the tank. As far as I good see you followed the tutorial very nicely.

I hope this answers your questions about this FloWorks tutorial, if there are other questions please let us know.

simple-pipeline-tutorial.fsm

simple-pipeline-tutorial.fsm (34.1 KiB)

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