Initial Pallets on conveyor Loop

[quim_j]

[ FlexSim 20.2.0 ]

Hi,

on a conveyor loop with 4 stations, i need to place some initial pallets at the start (time=0). i found it can be made with sources that creates pallets that go to the conveyor, but i find it not suitable. is there any onther way to place initial pallets on the conveyor? ( for example 2 at the buffer of each station)

Many thanks in advance,

[joerg_vogel_HsH]

The conveyor module expects items to enter through ports. You are not allowed to place items wherever you want.

There are legacy objects in FlexSim which behave more like a fixed resource object. These legacy conveyor objects are designed to place objects differently on them, but they behave also differently compared to conveyor module objects. You can switch them on in the environment settings of FlexSim. Then they are available in library pane.

[quim_j]

Thank you for the answer,

to be able to place pallets in the conveyor at time=0, is it needed to place as many DP's as pallets to be created? Then a source would feed the DP with one pallet at time = 0.

Thanks in advance.

[zac_h_adsk · Accepted solution]

@quim.j As Jorg mentioned you can't place items on a conveyor without an EntryTransfer Point. Here is a model with an example that shows me trying to place pallets at a decision point without an EntryTransfer Point. The model also has an example of me placing pallets on the conveyor with an EntryTransfer Point. I would recommend using Process Flow to place items on the conveyor at time 0 but this could also work with multiple sources.

Conveyor EntryTransfer Points.fsm

To create the EntryTransfer Point, make an A connection from a Fixed Resource to the conveyor. You can then right click on the EntryTransfer Point and click on "Remove Connection".

[Ben_WilsonADSK]

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