Maintaining continuous flow in conveyors with multiple speeds

Hello people,

I am modeling a Galvanizing plant of an steel manufacturer. I am having problem with creating a continuous flow of items on conveyors with multiple speed.

So in my model, a processor reads the parameters of an item and one of the parameter is the velocity. The processor assigns the velocity of an item to the conveyors downstream on which the item passes later on.

Now when the items X pass from conv A with speed 5m/s to convB with speed 6m/s, there is no longer a continous flow and gap between items.

Could anyone of you suggest me how can I solve this problem.

Many thanks!

I think you should have a look for Basic Conveyor. There you can insert some acceleration / deceleration options which could harmonise your flow.

If this doesn´t what you want, I´m afraid I understood you wrong. So maybe share an example model to Show what you need.

Some time ago I build a model with a basic conveyor, which might be helpful.
The model cann be found in the download section:

Sample_BasicConveyorReverse_TD
http://www.flexsim.com/community/for...do=file&id=213