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3.23 Linking processes
Procedure
Let´s complete the process chain now by linking the processes.
60. Select the „Power grid mix‟ process.
You will notice a red bar that represents the input side of the process on the left hand side
of the process box and a brown bar on the right that represents the output side of the
process.
61. Click on the brown bar, drag your mouse pointer to the „Paper Clip Bending‟
process and release it.
You link these two processes with a power flow.
In fact the power flow is automatically entered based on the fact that the single output
from the power grid mix process is power and one of the input flows to the paperclip
bending process is power. When linking processes GaBi checks for input/output matches.
You can see now that the output dot from the power grid mix process is black, as is one of
the input dots of the paperclip bending process.
We can now connect the steel billet, steel wire, truck and paperclip bending processes.
You will notice, when connecting the steel wire with the truck process the connect flows
window opens. This window allows you to specify which output flow should be connected
to which input flow. This occurs because there are no matching flows. In this case, GaBi is
not sure whether the steel output should be connected to the cargo or diesel input.
62. Connect the steel wire process to the cargo flow of the truck process now by
selecting „Steel wire‟ as the source and „Cargo‟ as the sink.
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