Send items to the first empty queue

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David AC asked Feb 16, '21 Ben Wilson commented Feb 23, '21

Send items to the first empty queue

I need to send items from the Separator to the 4 queue. But I want to send it only if the queue is empty and wait if the 4 queue are with one element. I need only one element in every queue and wait if the queue have one element... I was trying with process flow and zones....

thanks!

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FlexSim 21.0.1

flexsim 21.0.1

queue-test.fsm (74.1 KiB)

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Feb 18, 2021 at 10:27 PM

Hi @David AC,

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Feb 23, 2021 at 11:42 PM

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Answer 1 · 2021-02-16T18:46:39Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Feb 16, '21 Jason Lightfoot commented Feb 18, '21

Set the capacity of the queues to one.

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David AC commented · Feb 17, 2021 at 08:00 AM

Hi Jason,

thanks for answer!

But the thing is: in the separator I am separating one box into different elements dipending on a global table, and these elements are the ones I am storing in the queue. I need that the system wait all these block of elements finish to send more to that queue...

thanks!

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ David AC commented · Feb 18, 2021 at 10:27 PM

What you described initially sounds like this model but I expect we've lost something in the communication.

queue-test_jl.fsm

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queue-test-jl.fsm (64.9 KiB)

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