Operator and Elevator Not operation

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Steven Chen asked Dec 30, '19 zacharyh answered Jan 2, '20

Operator and Elevator Not operation

Used items: Source, Operator, People model's Elevator Bank, Queue, Plane, A Star and Grid.

Objectives: To do A Star's Elevator Bank, the Operator takes the elevator to place the item to the
Queue on the second floor.

Operation process:
1. Place the Source,Queue1, Operator, and Elevator Bank on Z location 0.
2. Place the Queue2 and sink1 on Z location 5.
3. Build A Star and Grid.

Problem Description:
There was a problem,Opertort and elevator can not operation,Operator stop on Queue1.

Annex: 1. Flexsim project
operator-and-elevator-not-operation.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.0.0

elevator bank

image-2.png (114.1 KiB)

operator-and-elevator-not-operation.fsm (36.1 KiB)

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 · 2020-01-02T18:08:13Z

zacharyh answered Jan 2, '20

@steven.chen

I was able to successful recreate your model and run it correctly when creating the A* and Grid for the first and second floor before adding the Elevator Bank to the model. There is more description/instruction about this found in the Manual.

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/20.0/WorkingWithTasks/Travel/WorkingWithAStar/#elevatorBanks

Here is the model that runs correctly.

elevator-bank-model.fsm

elevator-bank-model.fsm (36.5 KiB)

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.

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