How to change STATE of TE?

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shanice.c asked Dec 17, '21 shanice.c commented Dec 19, '21

How to change STATE of TE?

When TE battery level is under threshold, it travel to the charge station. I'd like to switch agv to "busy" state, but how could I make it? In second activity, I unchecked the "wait for complete" so that it could turn to busy state without waiting delay, then starts to wait for level come to 80%. But I found in my dashboard, there's no "busy" state exist. In the stable table, I have Busy state utilized, so I suppose busy state should show up in the dashboard.

The possible problem may because of 0 delay time I set, it will turn to busy state and then turn back to travel state instantly. Does Flexsim has mechanism to switch to different state automatically? If yes, how could I switch to busy status when start charging, and not restrict by the delay time field in the activity? Thank you!

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FlexSim 21.2.0

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Answer 1 · 2021-12-17T11:59:14Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Dec 17, '21 shanice.c commented Dec 19, '21

Just use the Custom Code activity to set the TE state and not the Delay Task activity.

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shanice.c commented · Dec 17, 2021 at 04:16 PM

Hi @Jason Lightfoot, Thank you for your answer. I've tested with an example, may I ask why te state isn't changed? The state is still following to the state depends on te's behaviour.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ shanice.c commented · Dec 17, 2021 at 08:36 PM

It's the way FlexSim processes events in one chain rather than scheduling events in the list. This means you need a Breathe (zero time delay) activity before you set the state to busy

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shanice.c Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Dec 19, 2021 at 03:27 AM

@Jason Lightfoot Thank you! It's works as I want!

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