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Can the seperator seperate more than 2 items at once?

I'm trying to manufacture a product that is consist of 4 materials, I don't have the knowledge yet to do that in flex sim, so I sent the 4 materials to a combiner and went to process them, I would from the process to change the 3d shape of all 4 times into if its possible, and then, I would like later on for the separator to act as a Disassembly process and separate all 4 items into an individual route, the main key of what I'm doing here is a closed-loop supply chain simulation project, the disassembly process is the act where items have been returned from customers as if it was "End of life product", so the separator would disassemble the item into 4 individual route each would have a quality check, currently this would be determined by a percentage of pass and failure if it passed it would go to the recycle route, if not it would go to the disposal.

currently, I'm stuck on how to separate 4 different items because as I see, the separate process can unpack or split the item into 2 pairs, I tried to add extra 2 separators, but it doesn't work quite well.

this picture shows sussrsfully seperate the combined item of 4 material into 2 pairs, adding 1 more queue systems would result it to be empty, im guessing my issue would mostly goes to the unpack quantity, currently im using constant numbers, and i found anything other than the number 2 would result in no items to be seperated for some reason.

adding extra 2 seperators to unpack all 4 items into its individual state resulted in this issue for me, the first 2 unpacked well. but the seconds pair did not unpack to a 3rd and 4th individual items, even though all seperators have same basic logic, which is unpack and quantity is constant 2.


hope someone can help me with this issue, thank you.

FlexSim 21.0.3
flexsim 21.0.3seperate more than two itmes
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Joerg Vogel answered

The default separator output property releases the container item through output port 1 and all other packed items through output port 2. If you need to unpack always 3 items from the container item than you can attach 4 output ports to the separator and set the send to port property to Round Robin.

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Put a label on the items for the type/component to identify it and then send to port based on that type - don't use the standard separator send to logic.

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