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I am modelling a factory, and i have the following: 3 queue's that each get boxes from their own source. these queue's have their own combiner that puts the boxes on a pallet (all the pallets are coming from 1 queue, queuePallet) all the combiners put their pallet with boxes in the same queue, lets call this queueEND. After this there are transporters that pick the combined pallets with boxes and bring them somewhere else, but that is not so important. I now want to know how much pallets their are in queuePallet, QueueEND and in all the combiners together, all summed up (this sum has to represent the number of parking places, the pallets represent carts). Is it possible to put this in a barplot or a table?

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I just noticed your question here and that nobody has replied to it. Were you able to figure it out yet?
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bsantens,

It sounds like what you are trying to do is to figure out the number of items in a given area. The easiest way to do this would be to place a visual tool in the model and connect (Center Port "S") all of the incoming objects and outgoing objects to the visual tool. Then you can use the the Entry/Exit trigger picklist option for "Notify Visual Tool of Entry or Exit".

When you do this the visual tool will track the items as if they were within the Visual Tool. So all of the statistics about stay time, number of items, etc. will be on the Visual Tool. The only catch is when you count incoming items and then palletize them before they go out. You will need to loop through the contents of the pallets as they exit and notify the visual tool for each item in the pallet.

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