How to choose closest Equipment Resource?

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Patrick Cloutier asked Oct 20, '21 Matthew Gillespie answered Oct 20, '21

How to choose closest Equipment Resource?

In the attached model, I want the employee to always grab the next closest cart. I create a specific number of carts at the start of the run and the Acquire never chooses one of those created carts. It always chooses the cart that was there in the beginning. Why is that?

Choose closest cart.fsm

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FlexSim 21.2.3

acquire resource

choose-closest-cart.fsm (53.0 KiB)

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Patrick Cloutier commented · Oct 20, 2021 at 09:02 PM

And I made sure that the newly created carts are also members of the group Equipment.

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Answer 1 · 2021-10-20T21:37:26Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Oct 20, '21

Your new equipment objects aren't on the Equipment global list, so nothing can find them when they acquire (which pulls from the Equipment list). You need to push your new dynamically created objects onto the list.

choose-closest-cart_fixed.fsm

choose-closest-cart-fixed.fsm (53.5 KiB)

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