Adding Flow - ABB PickMaster Twin - PowerPac Applications Manual

4.2.10 Adding Flow

Overview
A flow is used to define how the items and containers are to be generated in the
simulation. A flow is attached to a hot spot on a conveyor or an indexed work area
in the job configuration. When attaching the flow, the hot spot becomes a source
from where items and containers appear in the simulation according to the flow
configuration. Following are the two types of flows:
Adding a flow
The Flow window opens as illustrated below.
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• Layout: A Layout flow is a predefined layout that is periodically regenerated
at the hot spot. The layout may have some random variation regarding the
locations of items or containers and the availability of them. The layout may
consists of different items or container patterns.
• Recorded: A recorded flow is a recording of a sensor from a real solution in
operation. The recording is exported from PickMaster PowerPac as an xml
file having information of all the detected items and containers during a time
interval. When the file is imported, the items detected are mapped to the
configured items and container patterns.
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