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How to Increase the capacity of conveyor without increasing length & width

tushar_hazare — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:01:58 GMT

[ FlexSim 23.0.1 ]

Hello,

I want to increase the capacity of conveyor without increasing the length and width for conveyor A, B, C. Also, it is possible to flow item layer by layer so that capacity of conveyor will be increased. find attached snap for reference

Sample Model_Conveyor capacity.fsm

Please find the attached model for reference

Thank you in advance

Re: How to Increase the capacity of conveyor without increasing length & width

kavika_faleumu — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 21:20:51 GMT

Hello @Tushar H, to rephrase your first statement, "I want to fit more in this space without making the space bigger." That in itself is impossible without either changing the size of the space or boxes. You suggest stacking boxes on the conveyors (like your image), but what does that actually model? No conveyor I know of starts stacking boxes when it gets full.

I suggest adding a Queue after each conveyor. Queues are built to store objects and position them in a way that makes sense. This way your conveyor can move continually and your Queue can pile up objects while your Operator takes time to move them.

I also noticed you're using a Processor in between conveyors to simulate a stop or process. You could do the same thing with a Station - an object that stops items on a Conveyor to be processed for an amount of time.

I hope this helps.

sample-model-conveyor-capacity_1.fsm

Re: How to Increase the capacity of conveyor without increasing length & width

andrew_o2 — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 22:52:46 GMT

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Re: How to Increase the capacity of conveyor without increasing length & width

joerg_vogel_HsH — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 14:43:43 GMT

You can stack items onto conveyitems, BUT they aren’t counted as content of a conveyor anymore. If you want to do such thing, then you use moveobject by command, tasktype, process flow activity, or by property up of treenode flexscript class.

Re: How to Increase the capacity of conveyor without increasing length & width

tushar_hazare — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:50:08 GMT

Without queue Possible if not then is it possible if I increase the width size only..

Re: How to Increase the capacity of conveyor without increasing length & width

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:55:15 GMT

If you want to have realistic accumulation then no - not without a lot of work. You can place two conveyors side by side and have each accumulate independently.

If you're not going to accumulate and can manage the entry restrictions due to space in your code then you can remove the spacing constraints on the conveyor and have items (almost) side by side on one conveyor.

Re: How to Increase the capacity of conveyor without increasing length & width

joerg_vogel_HsH — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:54:02 GMT

As an explanation a conveyor can store items in conveying direction by length of conveyor divided by item size in this direction. You can adjust size of items, then you can store more items. Once the items have entered a conveyor, you can place them beside each other. BUT they are still seen as a single row internally.
You can reshape their size to look like unshrinked boxes but that is only visually. You can add a different height location. You can even place them a bit behind or front of their entering location. BUT as said, they keep their entering sequence and their entering size internally for events of the conveyor object.

I would resize item objects before entering a conveyor, then more items are stored. Then I reshape their visual size to look like normal boxes. I place them by setting a different height above another. By this a conveyor statistic is correct relative to number of items conveyed.

Edit: I attach an example:

third_size_x_spatialx_factor_3.fsm

Re: How to Increase the capacity of conveyor without increasing length & width

tushar_hazare — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:08:40 GMT

Thank you so much