Fire OnResourceAvailable at Simulation Start

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Tzu Hsuan C asked May 30, '21 Joerg Vogel answered May 30, '21

Fire OnResourceAvailable at Simulation Start

In TaskExecuter and Operator, "Fire OnResourceAvailable at Simulation Start" is checked.

My questions are:

1. Does it simply mean that the Resource is available when simulation start?(This is defaulted)

And if it's not checked, the resource is unavailable until which moment? How to set up here?

2. Refer to FlexSim Basic Tutorials, it goes the object's OnResourceAvailable trigger will be fired when the simulation starts.

What is Fire mean here?

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.1.2

flexsim 21.1.2 fire onresourceavailable

Answer 1 · 2021-05-30T09:50:02Z

Joerg Vogel answered May 30, '21

“Fire“ is setting a signal to initiate a response.
If a taskexecuter (operator, crane, vehicle) isn’t doing anything, he is available, but nobody knows it. If he gets a tasksequence, then he does the tasks of the tasksequence. If a tasksequence has been done, then he fires “I am available” event.
Then any listener can get into action On this event.

If you never set an event Resource is Available and you don’t dispatch any task-sequence to the Taskexecuter, he won’t notify any listener, that he is available.

Events are the fuel of a simulation run. If there aren’t any nothing will happen.

There are some event driven activities in process flow, that needs the event “resource is available”. Sometimes you simply need this event to occur on model run start to create a token.

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