I need to simulate increase of space only in excess capacity temporary

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Ismael R3 asked Dec 27, '20 Ben Wilson commented Jan 6, '21

I need to simulate increase of space only in excess capacity temporary

Hello everyone, I need your help please. What happens is that I need to simulate the increase in space of the picking areas, but only when they reach their limit. That is, I have these two picking areas, each one with a space of 20 and 40 of max content. If, for example, the area of 40 fills up, only in that instant of time that this max content is increased to 84 positions, for as long as the content needs this increase, and then returns to 40 positions. The context of this need is that I want to simulate if these areas are filled, if the increase of 44 more spaces of content, will be enough in these time intervals where the space is needed, or if I need more space. I wonder if there is any way to program this in the floor storage or can you think of a way to simulate this. I attached my modelmodelo intento dos.fsm.

Another question is that I would like to test this in the experimenter, if I wanted to vary this capacity until I observe that my model already has the necessary capacity so that there is no lack of space.

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FlexSim 21.0.0

flexsim 21.0.0 floor storage maximum capacity temporary capacity

modelo-intento-dos.fsm (1.3 MiB)

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Ismael R3 commented · Dec 28, 2020 at 01:57 AM

Thanks for your advice, but I have a problem because from what I understand I would have to create a queue before either of the two picking zones to try to simulate this, but the problem is that I am using process flow and these go directly to my two zones picking, would you have to send these queues first to see this? Another question is that I would like to test this in the experimenter, if I wanted to vary this capacity until I observe that my model already has the necessary capacity so that there is no lack of space. How would I do this if I use your option in the model. I really appreciate your help, maybe a small example would serve me more please!

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Jan 06, 2021 at 12:12 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-12-28T09:12:12Z

Steven Hamoen answered Dec 28, '20

@Ismael R3 What you can do is use 2 global variables for the size of the 2 areas and use either a assign label activity or a custom code to set those 2 variables just after the load and before the first decide (and also after the delay because then the situation can be different again) and then in your decides use those global variables instead of the fixed numbers you are using now.

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