This tutorial will help you define which objects are part containers
and build the relationship between those parts and their containers.
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In the flow properties, Object definition
and containment interface, create 2 objects Boxes and Truck.
Select the display object value box.
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Click on the Truck object and select object
components.
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Add Boxes to the definition of the truck,
define 6 boxes per truck. Do not check any other option in the
component definition.
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Create a Start process that creates trucks.
In the Object creation rules, check the “Stop after…” box, and
define 2 in the number section. The start process will create
only 2 trucks.
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Create a Start process that creates boxes.
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Create a generic process called Load truck,
Open its buffers/capacity settings (Row 2) interface. Click on
Define Q limits.
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Add Truck and Boxes to the Q Limits
section, and then set the count of 2 for trucks, and 3 for
boxes. That separates the queue into different capacity
segments.
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In the advanced settings, open the
Assembly/Disassembly interface and click the Batch column for
truck to indicate that the truck will be assembled.
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Create a Generic process called Unload
Truck and set its Assembly/Disassembly settings to split the
grouped object, and split after processing. Do not delete the
container as the truck will be reused for another load.
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Create an End process called End Boxes.
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Create the flow;
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Start (Trucks) to
load truck
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Start (Boxes) to
load truck
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Load truck to
unload truck
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Unload truck to
load truck
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Unload truck to
end boxes
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Edit the properties of the Unload truck and
select object routing from the process routing settings.
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Edit the routing, and set the object based
routing option where;
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Boxes go to the
End boxes process
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Truck go to the
Load truck process
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Run the simulation, 2 trucks are loaded in
the Load truck process, then unloaded in the unload truck before
they cycle again to the loading area.
