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how make flow in conveyor when it is linked with process flow?

gilbertjerald1993 — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:47:05 GMT

in my model conveyor is linked to process flow, in this the item that arrives on the conveyor should moves to processor 9 and the it should move to queue 10 but the item is not moving on the conveyor instead its stay at the start of the conveyor how over come this problem here i have attach my model for your reference link-process-flow-with-3d.fsm

Thanks in advance

Re: how make flow in conveyor when it is linked with process flow?

regan_blackett — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:56:12 GMT

You just need to change your destination on the Create Object activity that is trying to create into the conveyor; the conveyor doesn't appear to like having something created directly into it. So just connect a queue to the conveyor and create into the queue instead and it should be fine.

Re: how make flow in conveyor when it is linked with process flow?

matt_long — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:41:16 GMT

First off, if you aren't on 16.2.1 you'll want to update to that. The createtoken() command had a bug in it causing issues with Process Flow. Generally speaking (especially if you're within Process Flow), it's best to use the Create Tokens activity rather than creating your tokens manually in code. Using the createtoken() command also hides logic. The command was created specifically to allow 3D objects to kick of process flow logic.

Now as for your item being stuck on the conveyor. You can think of the conveyor as more of a travel network like network nodes or the AGV network. If you created an item and placed it on a network node, the item would just sit there. The conveyor works the same way. You'll want to create a Queue and A connect it up to the conveyor, then create the object inside that Queue. This will also ensure that items have space to enter the conveyor, and if there is no space available, the item will wait in the queue until space is freed up.

Re: how make flow in conveyor when it is linked with process flow?

gilbertjerald1993 — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:15:02 GMT

@regan.blackett

Thanks a lot for your reply sir

Re: how make flow in conveyor when it is linked with process flow?

gilbertjerald1993 — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:15:55 GMT

@ Matt Long

Thanks you sir for your reply.