Make transporter go to coordinate using path

Question

question

Patrick Cloutier asked May 15, '17 Patrick Cloutier commented May 24, '17

Make transporter go to coordinate using path

In the attached model, I need the transporter to use the paths all the way to the pick locations. The locations are coordinates set in the queue. This is a test model for a model which will have 400 pick locations and I'm trying to avoid having 400 queues by using setlocation in that 1 queue.

Problem is the transporter doesn't use the paths.

Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

many-pick-locations.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.1.2

transporter path

many-pick-locations.fsm (3.7 MiB)

5 |100000

Attachments: Up to 12 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 23.8 MiB each and 47.7 MiB total.

Answer 1 · 2017-05-17T15:34:52Z

Joerg Vogel answered May 17, '17 Patrick Cloutier commented May 24, '17

You can redirect the Transporter while he is on a Traveltask. This can be done by an inserted Sendmessage task, which is the first task of all transport tasksequences and is delayed by very short time value. For example you can insert the sendmessage task in the OnReceiveTasksequence function of the taskexecuter. It is then the last task which you rerank to be the first task. In the message you set the nearest network node to the item, you are going to load. I have done this already with a label on creation. I simply stored the Network Node number. In the OnMessage Trigger I build the treenode reference of the Network Node nearset to the item to load, which I use to redirect the traveler.

If you like to find the nearest network to your item, you can compare the location of the item in the queue to all Network Nodes of your model.
This approach works because the Queue is connected to all Network Nodes where the items are located to.

I'll add a example model as a comment later

Jörg

· 2

5 |100000

Attachments: Up to 12 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 23.8 MiB each and 47.7 MiB total.

Joerg Vogel commented · May 17, 2017 at 04:31 PM

example model many-pick-locations-jv-2.fsm

2 ·

many-pick-locations-jv-2.fsm (22.5 KiB)

Patrick Cloutier commented · May 24, 2017 at 01:38 PM

Thanks a lot. I've decided to model the entire truck control logic to a ProcessFlow for many reasons but I still need the trucks to follow paths so I will try to adapt this to my model. Thanks.

1 ·

question