Line Flow Simulator

Work a packaging line as a chain of cards. The infeed sets packages per minute, product length, gap, and belt speed — the same card as the conveyor speed calculator — and every card after it recalculates the flow downstream: a split or reject removes a share of the product, a merge adds another line's flow, a process station's dwell time consumes gap at the running speed, and stacking or batching combine several products into one.

The accumulation card sizes a buffer: seconds of downstream stoppage at the incoming rate become feet of zero-pressure accumulation, or a fixed length becomes the seconds it can absorb. That is the number an IntelliPak or MDR accumulation zone is built around. A feasibility flag on each card and on the whole chain catches negative gaps and speeds outside the practical range.

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