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Send items to another conveyor

jose_antonio_ie — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:58:05 GMT

[ FlexSim 23.1.0 ]

CP2_EntregaPulmonPausas_ReparteStations.fsm

Hello everyone,

I need you help. In the attached model, items are distributed in round robin mode between DP and stations 1 and 2.

What I'm looking for is that items go through station 1 until it will be saturated, then items must go through station 2 until station 1 will be available again and so on.

I hope I will be cristal clear with the question since English is not my home language.

Thanks in advance for your support.

Re: Send items to another conveyor

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:34:31 GMT

Here's one approach where station 'queue slots' are pushed to a list and the DP pulls them as items arrive. I've used labels on the stations for the priority and queue length and the DP has an array of stations containing them both.

cp2-entregapulmonpausas-repartestations_jl.fsm

Re: Send items to another conveyor

jose_antonio_ie — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:01:53 GMT

It works very fine!!!

Thanks a lot!

Re: Send items to another conveyor

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:09:20 GMT

No problem. Note that this scales easily in that you can use the same process flow with other decision points you add as instances. Each DP just needs the station array label and for the stations to have the same label names.

If you were to select and copy the DP and Stations to a new location, they will just work for the new location too, without any further modifications.