Transporter moves to cab of truck to unload

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Claire Krupp asked May 24, '22 Claire Krupp commented May 24, '22

Transporter moves to cab of truck to unload

I am loading trucks with racks at a shipping dock. The truck has to be a FlowItem acting as a Task Executer, so that I can get the correct packing inside the truck, and also have the truck move along a network node path. (Ultimately, I want to add a GIS for the travel to the customer.)

I have the Transporter (token.flt) travel to token.Dock, which is the network node underneath the truck, and that is a perfect visual for unloading into the truck, but then when it executes the Unload command, it moves all the way to the front of the cab of the truck, which looks silly!

I can't see a way to choose the x,y, position where transporter should be when it unloads. How can I make it stay where it was to do the unload?

Unload into truck.fsm

Also, please change your documentation of Flow Item Types, to include the Truck in the Task Executor category:

It took me a lot of searching through the Answers to find out that I could use this to get the packing method to work.

Thanks

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.1.2

unload trucks as a task executor

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Answer 1 · 2022-05-24T18:59:06Z

Jacob W2 answered May 24, '22 Claire Krupp commented May 24, '22

Hi @Claire Krupp,

You can change the location of the transporter by adding a trigger to the truck in the FlowItem Bin. By adding a place offset trigger, when the transport arrives to place the items in the truck, it offsets the placement location of the transport. I have included the some images that show how I set up the trigger and what it looks like when the model is run.

You can change the location by manipulating the X and Y values on the trigger.

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Claire Krupp commented · May 24, 2022 at 07:17 PM

Yep! That's perfect. Thanks @Jacob W2

The only thing I did different was make the Object the "unloader" instead of "current" to be sure that the transporter was the object that was placed.

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Claire Krupp commented · May 24, 2022 at 07:03 PM

That looks pretty easy! I'll try it.

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