jzhou Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 A suggestion to improve the combiner design. I find if we want to combiner entity from diffrent routes together, it is troublesome, Have you ever think of similar design Extendsim does? (As attached)..
dsturrock Posted May 23, 2014 Posted May 23, 2014 I can't tell from a picture the details of what this object can or can't do, but one of the nice things about Simio is the ease of building your own objects to perform exactly as you wish. I look forward to seeing your object in the Shared Items forum. (Another implementation of Combiner is already there...)
jzhou Posted May 23, 2014 Author Posted May 23, 2014 Hi, Dave from the picture it tells us we could combine entities from different routes( more than 2 ) into 1 entity. and the batch quantity of each route can vary.... so for example, we can get 1A,2B,3C,1D,etc..............and combine into 1 X and the batch quantity can also use Expression, not necessarily a constant. the quantity of combing routes can be changed if you pull the black rectangel below.... Sometimes we don't want "box in box" concept, we only need to batching different quantities of entity type into 1. and then separate at some point just as when they are batched together... current construct of Cominer can only bacth two routes, due to its parent/member logic..
dsturrock Posted May 23, 2014 Posted May 23, 2014 The Materials and Bill of Materials features on the Workstation object provides similar capability, but using materials (consumable items) rather than objects.
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