I'm trying to simulate a double shuttle car in a palletizing area. This shuttle works for 7 palletizing lines. The shuttle must pick up 2 pallets at a time from the same line. Pallets from lines 1, 2 and 3 must be delivered to conveyor A and pallets from lines 4, 5, 6 and 7 must be delivered to conveyor B. How can I simulate it?
The attached model demonstrates a possible approach.
The Exit Transfers push the task sequence to transport the items to a list. In the Process Flow, each time something is pushed to that list, a token is created that pulls the entry from the list again. The tokens are batched into pairs according to the Exit Transfer that the item is at. When two tasks are available they are dispatched to the operator.
But this is part of the solution. I would like there to be a shuttle car with 2 slots instead of an operator. And this shuttle would take the products from conveyors 1, 2 and 3 to conveyor A and the products from conveyors 4, 5, 6 and 7 to conveyor B.
Just check the settings on the existing objects and copy those and in the case of the operator, add a different task executer and replace the reference in the "Dispatch TS" activity in Process Flow.
Is there any task executer in the library that can take 2 objects at the same time? I mean.. go to the position, take the first object and then switch the position and take the second object and do the same to delivery the object. Other way I assume I will need to create something to simulate that.
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