Tab Exit Strategies

On the tab Exit Strategies you can select according to which strategy workpiece carriers transporting products are moved on when several successors can process the product.

The object Process_multiple provides these exit strategies:

• Cyclic

  This strategy moves the workpiece carriers one after the other to the successors. This is a blocking strategy. This means that when its the turn of successor 2, but when this successor is occupied, Plant Simulation waits for successor 2 all the same until this successor can receive the workpiece carrier.

• Start at successor 1

  This strategy always attempts to move the workpiece carrier to the first successor. It only takes the other successors into consideration when this is not possible.

• First free successor

  This strategy checks which successor can accept the workpiece carrier. It them moves the workpiece carrier to this successor.

• Percentage

  This strategy attempts to distribute the workpiece carriers among the successors according to a percentage which you define.

• Minimum Occupation

  This strategy moves the workpiece carrier to the successor that had the lowest occupancy until now. Plant Simulation

All strategies always keep the workpiece carriers of a production order together. This means that a strategy only is used when the order number of a workpiece carrier changes.

When a strategy is blocking, Plant Simulation activates the label blocking next to the drop-down list, otherwise it grays the label out.

For the strategy Percentage Plant Simulation activates the button Open List. Click the button and enter the percentages into the table that opens. During the simulation the table shows the current numbers for the percentages.