Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Process Simulator Professional

Material Handling Edition

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Process Simulator Professional Material Handling Edition.

With this chargeable upgrade to Process Simulator Professional Material Handling Edition you can now model the material flow in detail in your Process Simulator models. Along with the drawing environment being scaled, you now will have access to Stations, Conveyors and Path Networks.

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Material Handling

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Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Material Handling Edition

Along with the drawing environment being scaled you now will have access to:

Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Stations

A new type of activity created to enhance material handling. The station can have capacity or capacity can be turned off; designed to be used with conveyors.

You can inset an onboard station into a conveyor.

Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Conveyors

Conveyors control how entities flow from activity to activity. Introducing Stations in a conveyor enhances the ability to control flow from conveyor to conveyor.

  • Control speed of conveyors
  • Control distance of conveyors
  • Control orientation of entities
  • Control accumulation of entities

Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Path networks

Resource movement can be added to enhance your model with travel, pick up, and deposit time.

Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Nodes - decisions points of a path network

  • Set limits
  • Flexible connectors - allow for travel of resources to any part of your Visio file where the resource is requested.

Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Path Network Connector - connections between nodes

Distance is automatically configured by the scale or the model, but can be manually set.

Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Interfaces - connections from nodes to activities or stations

This is how you can control where resources go to interact with an activity/station.

Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Resource Path network section

Choose the path network the resource can move on.

  • Control starting, off-shift, and break node
  • Speed
  • Deposit times
  • Node logic for better control of resources

Process Simulator Professional Material Handling

Entity Conveyor Size

Length and width can be assigned to an entity for flow on conveyors.

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