Balanced Ordering Service

MBas · Post by **MBas** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 11:13 pm

Hello.

Do you have some extra requirement from your factory store but you are tired from that stupid inserters and robots who just overflow your order? Or do you have some order but not enough space in your inventory and have a problem with request chest which is request only? Or do you have some order that simply overrflow capacity of one simple chest?

Here is a version that quickly prepare what you need and more important: exactly in the amount you need. This stuff works as one piece of "perfect all in one" chest. It just throw away anyting up to order and get anything on the order list from the red network upward. The system also spam into red network exact value of still missing order in case you need to set this signal into some parts of your factory (negative value correspond to state when system just dont throw away yet something you cancel from order list)

Note: If your order is higher than one chest size, rest of your content will be available in the wooden chests around. That chests has primary purpose to protect before state when you order something non-available (stack filter inserter can use only one thing in the request list at one time).

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huliosh · Post by **huliosh** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 3:51 pm

That solves the smart factory from chest(warehouse) with rate control. Very nice.

hansinator · Post by **hansinator** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 11:29 pm

Interesting solution!

Here's mine:

The constant combinator above the steel chest is used to set the requested items. Can you figure out how it works?

Blueprint

MBas · Post by **MBas** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 4:48 pm

Hmm, that trick how to change sign via another signals by integer overflow is interesting

. However, your solution cant drop anything from final chest. And your stack inserter work about 1/3 - 1/2 speed since it take items from the floor. But its still very good.

hansinator · Post by **hansinator** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 5:05 pm

MBas wrote:However, your solution cant drop anything from final chest.

It does not need to drop anything from the final chest - it will never get too many items delviered in the first place. Unless you put something into it manually.

MBas wrote:And your stack inserter work about 1/3 - 1/2 speed since it take items from the floor.

Yes the inserters are slower, but it needs less robot flights, less parts and less space than your solution. It's a tradeoff

huliosh · Post by **huliosh** » Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:38 pm

I couldn't completely understand your build, but luckly came up with the same method to place it on the belt.
As recipe is used 1 pulse generator(it could be based on clock or looped with autoreset when cycle ends with memory=0). Subtracting items from the belt with integer overflow.

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Detailed explanation of combinators pictures

Blueprint string

P.S. Thank you guys for sharing integer overflow, more control and other stuff related to smart factories. I think this thread is the best for starting off centralized smart factory.

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