Part Sorting and Lane Selection

[caleb_hembra]

Hello,

I have a simulation where I am feeding part into 5 lanes of conveyor. I need 50% of the to go to the lane 1 - 3 and the other to go to lane 4 and 5. The part I am having issue with is try to make the part go into specific lanes. The part that go into lanes 1 - 3 need to go into lane 3 until it is full and start filling lane 2 and then lane 1. The same with the parts going the lane 4 and 5. It needs to fill lane 4 then start filling lane 5. I have attached the simulation. I was try to make a process flow that would use photo eyes to let me know when the lane was full so I could start sending the parts to the next lane.

Thank you in advance for the help

[FelixMoehlmann · Accepted solution]

The problem with using the state of a Photo Eye for the routing decision is that you are bound to overload conveyors, as there might be more items on the way to the conveyor already when the PE becomes blocked. It's safer to use counter labels on the Decisions Points to store how many items have been routed to that conveyor.

There were multiple instances of trying to read labels that do not exist on the tokens in your Process Flow. When adding/configuring activities you need to make sure that the labels accessed in the activity will actually be present on the token. A pointer label to the item can for example be added in the Event-Triggered Source, if the item is part of the event parameters.