Bottle Stability On A Conveyor

Hello Everyone!

I normaly simulate bottle production lines using conveyors and several processors in series. Is there any way to simulate bottle stability (fallen bottles) on a conveyor? Perhaps using the "on_entry" trigger? Also, if a bottle does fall, is it possible for the conveyor to stop?

Thanks!

Simulating "fallen bottles" means you need to simulate the effect of a fallen bottle. What is the effect? Is the effect less room on the conveyor to hold as many bottles? If so, then you maybe could use trigger points like OnEntry, OnExit, or the OnCover of a photo eye to change the Maximum Content of the conveyor based on a probability of a fallen bottle. If the effect is that the conveyor must stop, then you can use the same triggers mentioned above to stop the conveyor by executing changeconveyorspeed(current, 0); which sets the conveyor's speed to zero. In this case you would need another userdefined event to fire when the conveyor can start again. In other words, at the same time you decide to stop the conveyor you would send the conveyor a delayed message in x time so that you can use the OnMessage trigger to restart the conveyor by setting the speed back to what it should be.