Require multiple tokens to acquire one piece of equipment?

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justinrusty asked Jan 20, '23 Kavika F answered Jan 20, '23

Require multiple tokens to acquire one piece of equipment?

I am programming a process that uses an acquire location/equipment for an "Incubator" as a batch is being placed inside it so when the next batch comes through it chooses the next incubator instead of placing all batches in one.

However each of these incubators have multiple shelves.

Is there anyway to only acquire a piece of equipment after 3 tokens have passed and are using it?

but the moment one shelf is freed up have it become available again.

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.2.4

acquire resource load multiple

Answer 1 · 2023-01-20T21:14:51Z

Kavika F answered Jan 20, '23

Hey @justinrusty, this might be a solution you could try. incubation.fsm

In the top right, you can see "Incubators" are pushed onto a list. They're just tokens that represent each incubator.

Tokens are created in "batches", then get put together with a Batch activity. They then pull an Incubator that is ready to receive a batch. When the incubator is pulled, it is unavailable to other batches until it is done "incubating". When the token is done incubating, it will push the incubator back on the list, ready for another batch to pull and use.

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