Process Modelling

Process Modeling
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Hey guys,

My first post on this forum - been a user for good part of 8 years - only makes you realize that if you are not at it everyday ; you are basically starting from scratch lol.

I wanted to know if any of you have worked on a mechanism as in the video.
I am currently working with a mushroom manufacturer who is trying to retrofit his dutch trays.
The concept is you have 2 15m racks, with moveable rows ( basically a domino effect).

I managed to create the flow for the first set of processes. I am struggling as it involves lot of back and forth of products between the process nodes . I want the product to enter and leave the node only once - but what is happening is it tries to go into a loop.

I tried using the counter system by assigning variables etc - no luck.

Any guidance on this would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Andy

VER02_Apprentice.vcmx (2.5 MB)

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Test LiftLager.vcmx (325.2 KB)

I tried with just one process per rack in which I created a frame for each level, which I can use for the Create and TransportIn statements.

There are a lot of statements, but it’s basically copy-pasted and I just changed the ProductVariableName and ProductPositionFrame for each product.

It’s a lot easier to define the Flow that way

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Tilma, Thank you very much for this - I managed to find a resolution for this as well.
Will have a look at what you have sent now for reference.
So I basically,

  1. created two process nodes for each rack.
  2. Created reference frames for the rows and created them all together at once.
  3. I then used signal statements to control the flow and the lift of the right rack which would move up n down.

But genuinely thank you for this

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I suppose exactly like what u suggested in the first sentence ( i missed that part)