topic Re: one processor many operators at the time in FlexSim Forum

one processor many operators at the time

snakezq2 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 03:50:38 GMT

[ FlexSim 22.2.0 ]

Hi, im trying to make a processor that receives one type of product, this processor capacity depends on my free operators and the product must be proced just by one operator, i mean if the processor has two products must be 2 operators each one working in a single product, not both, so when the first product is finished the first operator is idle while the other one stills working o the other product.

Also I dont know how to make that a procesor needs 3 operator but just one from 3 types of operators there are but if theres one left it doesn't begins to operate, also with the condition I mentioned in the paragraph before.

thanks

Re: one processor many operators at the time

SebastianCanasV — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:20:41 GMT

@Alejandro ,

Could you share your model to understand better what you've done and what you're asking?

Re: one processor many operators at the time

joerg_vogel_HsH — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:03:24 GMT

@Alejandro, probably you can achieve this in a single processor. I recommend to use for each process a different processor object. If you activate to use an operator for processing you can still manage which operator is called to a processed type. A processing starts only, when an operators arrives at the processor.

Re: one processor many operators at the time

moehlmann_fe — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:54:23 GMT

As Jörg already alluded to, a processor is not suited to handle multiple items in parallel but individually. You can't pause the process of only one item, for example.

Apart from simply using multiple processors, you could also implement custom logic for an object in Process Flow. Attached is an example that allows an unlimited number of items, as long as operators are available. And what type(s) of operator are required can be set for each item type.

custom-workbench-pf.fsm