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How to transport to robot in separator items individually in FlexSim

y-kimFUB37 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:36:20 GMT

I would like to share the current progress of my simulation.

Source 1: Queue for generating "Thing" (type: FlowItem)
Source 2: Queue for generating "Panel" (type: FlowItem)
Left side of the conveyor:
- Placed Combiners 1, 2, and 3
- Panels are generated from Source 2 onto Combiners 1, 2, and 3
- When Thing is placed on top of a Panel, it gets "packed"
- Then the packed item flows to the right
Right side of the conveyor:
- A Separator is placed
- The incoming packed Panel + Thing is "unpacked" by the Separator
- The robot picks up the Mono and places it into a queue
- The Panel is moved to the lower conveyor (not picked up by the robot)

This is the mechanism I have built so far, but I’m not fully confident whether this setup is appropriate from a simulation perspective.

Also, in step 5, after unpacking with the Separator, I want the robot to transport only the Thing, while the Panel should be transported without using the robot. However, currently the robot picks up and transports both items.

I would like to know if it’s possible to configure the robot to pick up only the Mono and ignore the Panel.

I would appreciate it if you could explain...

Re: Is it possible to transfer a queue to a conveyor?

y-kimFUB37 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:38:56 GMT

The panels are already placed on the conveyor—about three of them.
So I think it's different from generating them from a source.

Re: How to transport to robot in separator items individually in FlexSim

moehlmann_fe — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:41:20 GMT

Considering the carriers move individually, I probably would have build this by having TEs travel along an AGV path and load/unload them with Process Flow logic. But if this is close enough to what you want then it's perfectly fine.

Having the robot only move the "Thing" is not a matter of configuring the robot but the separator. It decides which object (if any) is responsible for the transport in the "Use Transport" option.

You can use the "Conditional Transport" option for this. The condition would be that the port is equal to 2.