different capacity for different flow item for a same TE

Hi,

since a TE might need to transfer difference flow item, is there a way for a TE to have different capacity for different flow item? Thanks.

Kelvin

kelvin,

Try OnLoad write the capacity to the maxcontent based on the flowitem type.

This should work

David

thanks

but another simple question:

how to directly write to a variable by command?

Take a look at setvarstr, setvarnum to write to a variable and use
getvarst, getvarnum to read a variable value.

Lars-Olof

Seems not work

I just added itemtype and set the OnLoad trigger of the transporter

Kevin,
You were close. You forgot the breaks on your switch statement. Next time just select the "Set color by value" pick option and replace the colorred(item), colorgreen(item), etc. with setvarnum(current,"maxcontent",1) leaving breaks.

I also set the transporter's Break To Requirement to "Same Itemtype". So far we are assuming that your transporter only carries one itemtype at a time. Let us know if this is not the case.

Kris

o thanks, that's exactly what I want;

Hi, Kris,

I just tried to learn your trick by copying and building the model. However, it doesn't work for me. Most of time, it follows the rule, but from time to time, it loads different types together ignoring the capacity. The first exception happens around 700 sec in my model.
I don't know what I missed in my model. Can you help me to find what I did wrong?

Thanks.

Hi, Kris,

I think I found the problem. The reason was because I used label to check the flow item type instead of using "itemtype". Acordingly, the break to requirement condition has to compare the label.

Here is the modification I made.

if(
//getitemtype(involved) == getitemtype(first(current)) // Check to see if the itemtypes match
getlabelnum(involved, "SKUType") == getlabelnum(first(current), "SKUType")
&&
gettotalnroftasks(curts) == getnroftasks(curts) // Make sure it is a complete sequence
)


Thank you for the tip!!
Sung

Hi Sung,

I noticed in the OnLoad you replaced getitemtype(item) with getlabelnum(item,"SKUType"), so I'm assuming that you want the capacity to be changed based on this label. You did this correctly.

In the previous example we set the transporter's Break To Requirement to "Same Itemtype" such that it would only carry like itemtypes. In your case you will want to again replace the getitemtype with getlabelnum such that it only loads like "SKUTypes". See attached.

Kris

Yup!!

You are right. I didn't catch that point.
Thank you very much again for the model, and the quick response!!!

Sung