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Multiple Operators Pulling Own Flow Items from Queue

KittingModel1.fsmI'm trying to create a kitting operation where I'll have multiple sources and queues to supply the items that need to be kitted and a few combiners with assigned operators to create these kits. The issue I'm having is getting each operator to pull their own tote and flow items to their assigned Combiner. I center port connected all of the operators to the queues for Transport, but only Operator 1 will grab items for all of the combiners. The other operators do not move to transport.

Thanks for any help!

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Each queue is set to use the object connected with the first centerport-connection for the transport tasks (well, except ItemQueue3 which currently does not use an operator at all).

What you want to do is make this dependent on where the item is send. In the "Use Operator" field you can access the port rank the item is send through with the variable port. With this you can use the operator connected to the object the item is send to (combiner) for the transport and don't need centerport-connections on the queues at all.

current.outObjects[port].centerObjects[1]
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Great! This is a lot simpler than I thought it was going to be. Thank you!
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