How do I use processflow to model flowitemtaskexecutor to travel from one point to another

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David Chan asked Sep 20, '16 Matt Long edited Oct 24, '16

How do I use processflow to model flowitemtaskexecutor to travel from one point to another

Hi I am trying to use processflow to model people to travel from one location to another. Please see the attached the model, the people after reaching the destination, it jump back to the first location where the flowitem is created. Why?

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FlexSim 16.2.0

processflow flowitemtaskexec

walking.fsm (20.4 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2016-09-20T15:32:07Z

Sam Stubbs answered Sep 20, '16 Matt Long edited Oct 24, '16

The travel task, simply is running an animation of the person moving from point A to point B. In the model's tree however, the item (or in this case person) is still inside the first queue. In order to fix this, I simply added a "Move Object" activity right after the travel that moves the traveller from inside the first queue to inside the second queue.

I've reattached your model below.

2486-walking.fsm

moveobject.png (7.8 KiB)

2486-walking.fsm (20.4 KiB)

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Matt Long commented · Oct 24, 2016 at 03:31 PM

In the 2017 release of FlexSim, the Create Object activity has a checkbox to specify whether to create the object INSIDE of the destination object, or AT the destination object. This will eliminate the need for the extra Move Object activity.

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David Chan commented · Oct 22, 2016 at 10:09 AM

@Sam Stubbs

Thanks for your help the last round. Now I would like to people to use the network path. How should I implement it?

Thanks in advance

David

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Regan Blackett ♦ David Chan commented · Oct 23, 2016 at 01:52 AM

@david.chan

When you create the task executor flow items, specific any network node object as the Destination. Will attach the object to the path.

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David Chan Regan Blackett ♦ commented · Oct 23, 2016 at 06:31 AM

@regan.blackett

Thanks. It works.

David

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Answer 2 · 2016-10-23T06:30:49Z

David Chan answered Oct 23, '16

Hi everyone,

I have added this model to share.

In this model, I have created TE flowitem using PF as according to the advise to add it to the network node. Now the TE flowitem can use the network path.

teflowitem-on-network.fsm

Regards

David

teflowitem-on-network.fsm (22.7 KiB)

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