Problem on assembly line - witness

[Florek]

Hello everyone
I need to make simulation for assembly line. I have a six multi cycle machines, which are connected by assembly palets. On the first operation of first machine enter a pallet (I have a 17 pallets which are in loop), in the second operation to machine enter two different parts which are assembled on the pallet. On the end of third operation it should output from machine to buffer between machines (the pallet with assembled parts). How I can do that?
I hear about ability using of labor as a tool which is assigned to the parts on input machine, but I don't understand how I can make it.

I will be grateful for any advice.

Regards
Florek

[ewilliams]

Greetings. I would suggest the following: create Part types Pallet, MyPart, and MyPartOnPallet. To put the Part on the Pallet at one Machine, use a Machine of type Assembly and undertake the following to assemble several parts into an existing part:
Create the parts that the machine assembles (for example, MyPart parts that will be loaded onto a Pallet part).
Work out the total number of parts that are needed to make the new part and enter that value in the input quantity field (for example, 1 MyPart parts is attached onto 1 Pallet part, so enter 2 as the input quantity).
Create an input rule to select the parts. If you are selecting parts of more than one type, or parts of different quantities, use the SEQUENCE rule. For example: SEQUENCE /Wait MyPart out of WORLD#(1), Pallet out of PalletBuffer#(1).

Assembling parts into the first part in the machine
Check the "Assemble Into part" box. By default, parts in the machine are assembled into the first part that arrives in the machine. If you want this to happen, you must ensure that the machine’s input rule (e.g., the SEQUENCE rule above) brings the appropriate part into the machine first.
You might want to edit the machine’s actions on finish to change the assembled part in some way, so that you can tell the difference between parts that contain other parts and parts of the same type that don’t contain other parts. For example: SET ICON BOX, 10.
When you run the model and look at the statistics, you will see that all the parts that have been processed by the machine are counted as assembled. They have not been destoyed; you can retrieve some or all of the component parts using a Production machine. No new parts are created using this method. Eventually, you will want to separate the MyPart from the Pallet and recycle the empty Pallet (is a key modeling objective of yours to determine the optimum number of pallets in the system -- this is often an important question, since either too few OR too many pallets can clog a recirculating pallet loop?).