How to distributing items using conveyor belt decision point.

[Sachith_Lakshitha]

[ FlexSim 23.1.1 ]

I planned to do reading history base orders and operator go to rack and pick the each item and put in to conveyor belt and final complete order should be come in the staging area on pallet according to order wise. I add a decision point to conveyor , can you please support this matter.

Thanks.

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[Jacob_White]

Hi @Lakshitha,

One way to send items using a decision point is to set a pointer on the items that is the destination the decision point will route the items to. In the attached model I connected the staging areas to the conveyors, and set labels on them that point to the exit transfers on the conveyor.

In the process flow I added a sub flow that sets a label that points to the staging area on each item.

Finally on the decision point when an item arrives it sends the item to the exit port that is connected to their staging area.

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[carter-walch · Accepted solution]

@Lakshitha

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You can also accomplish this by assigning labels to each picked item such as the Order ID they belong to, the Staging Area, and their designated pallet on that Staging Area. When you connect each conveyor station to their staging area, you can use the decision point to send items to the station assigned to their StagingArea label.

Finally, the process flow moves items onto the pallet in the assigned staging area, and uses a Batch activity to wait until the order is fulfilled to send the pallet on the next conveyor. A new table was made called "AggregatedQuantities" to list each Order ID and the total number of products to wait for.

Hope this and @Jacob W2 's answer helps!

[Sachith_Lakshitha]

Hi @Jacob W2

Thanks you very much your valuable feedback. I got your idea and it support to improve my model.

Thanks.

[Sachith_Lakshitha]

Hi @Carter Walch

Thank you very much for your hard work and providing an insightful solution to the problem. That resolves my problem. one more thing I have make unload task as shown in image Assign the label for Drop down to conveyors
, and operators are always go to 3rd conveyor but I need they put any conveyor near to him. why it doesn't work all three conveyor with operator simultaneously.

Can you please give your kind support for this also

Thanks

[moehlmann_fe]

In your model each rack is connected to all Entry Transfers and in the Process Flow you always use the first connection which points to the same transfer for all racks.

The simplest solution here would be to only connect each rack to the one transfer the operators are supposed to use when picking items from it.

[Sachith_Lakshitha]

hi @Felix Möhlmann,

Thank you very much for your support, that resolve my problems completely.

Thanks & regard.