Request for Guidance on Multi‑SKU Simulation with Variant Geometry and Robot Programs

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You didn’t say how many SKU/products there are.

  • If it’s less than 5, I would probably one Flow per SKU with the corresponding product and subassembly. You can then choose a different geometry for each product, and define the Flow specific for this SKU/product.

  • If it’s more than 5, I would probably try to create just one product with different properties. The layout “Automatic Warehouse System” in the eCat shows a nice example:

    • with the component “Excel Reader” (eCat → Misc) or the * * Variable Cache AddOn you can read values from an Excel file. That way you can create only one product, and define in the process when it should be created, with which SKU, which color/size, which process time it will have, etc.
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    • if you are using the Process modeling for the robot, you could use * * Filters in the processes to transport the products to certain processes according to their Product Properties. If you are using robot programs, then you could use an If or Switch loop, to call a different programm accroding to the product properties.
    • You could also use an If or Switch loop to call a different assembly according to the product in the process. (like in the Template Layout “Assembly Construction Statement”)
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