Combining items

[indo_z]

[ FlexSim 19.0.9 ]

Hello i need to combine items with this logic
10 cake + 1 sugar = 10 cake with sugar.

All 10 of them needs to be combined(processed) at the same time

What i did is putting a queue for the cake with 10 batches enabled, and put the combiner settings on 'batch'.
But instead i got 11 items out of it, so it means that the sugar is still there not 'combined'.
If i put it in any other mode it'll combine it into 1 single item.

Is there any ideas to get around this? Sorry for my english

[joerg_vogel_HsH · Accepted solution]

It is a matter what you do in a model to visualize the process.10 pieces of cake gets coated with one item of sugar. Sugar is getting from a discrete item to an ingredient of a cake. It is more an attribute or feature then actual a part that you can later separate and sell alone again. Then abandome the idea of combining and handle it as a process instead. 10 batched items enter a processor and an item of sugar is available at the processor. After processing 10 items in the processor you delete the item of sugar and add a label at each cake telling that has now the feature of sugar. The data is available and the item of sugar is gone.

[joerg_vogel_HsH]

If you compare my appraoch with the 4th tutorial of process flow then there is little chance that it has got a small similarity to it.

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