Problem with conveyor side transfers

[Anatole_V]

[ FlexSim 24.0.3 ]

Hello,

I have an issue with side transfers of conveyors, an item can either go to the right or the left, and when it goes to the left, the item does a "jump" before arriving in the second conveyor.

conveyor_crossing_1.fsm

I looked at the conveyor points and I didn't see anything strange, am I misunderstanding the behaviour of these transfers ? Or is there a bug ?

Like this it looks like to be only visual error, but I actually have this issue in a much bigger model, and this error causes some bugs on the whole conveyor system.

Thanks,

[moehlmann_fe · Accepted solution]

Conveyors aren't really designed to be overlapped like this. The intersection should either be build by having the horizontal conveyors connect to the sides of the vertical one.

Or by using a small conveyor in the middle whose direction you change when needed.

The second case needs control logic to make sure that items with different destinations cannot enter the intersection at the same time. For the first case this is optional but can potentially come close to how the intersection would operator in reality.

conveyor-crossing-1.fsm

conveyor-crossing-2.fsm

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[Anatole_V]

Thank you for this answer, I changed the conveyor crossing and it works now.

I also think I actually found the reason why my bigger model was bugging.

In the same crossing, if I have acceleration and deceleration superior to 0, the box get stuck and is not able to transfer to the other conveyor :

Is this normal ?

Should the acceleration and decelaration always be equal to 0 ?

Thanks,

conveyor_crossing_w_pb_acceleration.fsm