Fluid conversion in FlexSim
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I’m modeling a grain elevator with trucks that either unload or load grain. Each truck has a tonnage value that varies (it follows an exponential distribution) stored in a label.
For unloading, I use a separator to separate the grain from the truck and then send it to a conveyor that feeds a bin. I want the bin’s fluid content to increase by the exact tonnage stored in the truck’s label. I’m currently using an item-to-fluid converter for this step.
For loading, the process is the reverse: the bin decreases and trucks leave with the amount of tonnage specified by their label. Here I’m using a fluid-to-item converter.
The problem is that both converters only accept fixed numeric values and not a distribution (or a label reference).
How can I set up the converters so that the bin increases/decreases according to the truck’s label value instead of a fixed number?