Operator not staying at process to finish batch?

[jake_w]

[ FlexSim 19.0.4 ]

cut-process-j.zipI am trying to make operator 2 or operator 3 stay at the cut station to finish the batch of 6 before returning to their respective bench to process more to add to the queues. As of now, the available operator runs back and forth after each box has been processed at the cut station. Is there an easy fix to this? I am wondering if I can make a sub flow in Process Flow for this to work.

[tanner_p · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jake W,

I accomplished this by adding priority on the Separator1 and Cut. The priority will communicate to the operator that the task being sent is more important than the other tasks of lower priority. Hopefully this will work for this model. (Note that I set them to an arbitrary number and Preemption)

You can also do this with Process Flow, but you would still have to prioritize the operator at the Cut machine. I've demonstrated (but not connected) the Process Flow so you can connect it (and disconnect the 3D logic) and see how it would work. Your entire process could be done this way, but it seems like you've got it set up just fine as it is.

I also updated the Combiner1 with a trigger that sets the Pallet Type to whatever the Type of the item on the pallet is. That way, when the Bake cycle time is calculated, it can read the table properly and not throw an error.

Model: cut-process-j-updated.fsm

[jake_w]

This is great! Thanks for your help @Tanner Poulton