How to use elevators in model healthcare flexsim

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Pert P asked Apr 3, '23 Jeanette F commented Apr 10, '23

How to use elevators in model healthcare flexsim

I have a model with 3 floors. I want to know How to use process flow to create patient incoming go to second floor and other floor follow location need to go that wrote in process flow. I dont know how to create process flow with using elevator.

This model : Using Elevators.fsm

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Software Version:

FlexSim 22.0.15

healthcare elevators

using-elevators.fsm (134.8 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2023-04-03T07:36:00Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Apr 3, '23 Jeanette F commented Apr 10, '23

Add A* Grids to the different floors and make the elevator bank a member of the A* navigator. Then you just use the standard activities to have the patients move to objects/locations on other floors.

using-elevators_1.fsm

using-elevators-1.fsm (176.9 KiB)

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Pert P commented · Apr 03, 2023 at 07:49 AM

How to set condition for choose elevators, like Choose First available elevator to serve patient like this

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Felix Möhlmann Pert P commented · Apr 03, 2023 at 07:59 AM

The navigator will always choose the elevator bank that results in the shortest travel route. One elevator bank can contain multiple elevator cabins/shafts (just resize the object along the x-axis to add/remove them) and has an internal logic to control those which mostly works on a First Available principle.

If you have more than one elevator bank and want to control which one the patients use you will have to implement custom logic that first sends them near the chosen bank, so that they will use it because it is the shortest path.

See also the following posts for some more information:

https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/108719/elevator-bank-logics.html

https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/94636/rule-for-choosing-elevator-bank.html

https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/138282/two-elevator-banks.html

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