Good day. Please see attached model. I am trying to improve the efficiency of the staff. They take full totes to a queue to unpack it then take the empty totes back to another conveyor.
Sometimes the staff walk to a new task while they could be carrying an empty tote on their way back and this causes inefficiency. Is there perhaps a way for transporting several totes to the queue on a trolley type arrangement (would we need to use another combiner for this?) to further improve the efficiency?
There exists the Function Break To in every Taskexecuter, which is responsible to let him do multiple transport jobs simultaneously. Any given picklist option is in its principle, I would call it static. You can load more at a same load station or for a same destination. You can load of a same label value. But a clever or intelligent Break To option must involve a forecast, which let him except a waiting time until waiting gets inefficient. But this mechanism is not part of any picklist option. If your travel time as traveling to a destination and come back time lasts longer than waiting for an event when a next transport job gets available, waiting would be an option to be more efficient.
You can just make the seperator unload tasks higher priority and make the entry transfer allow 2 transports in.
Model attached.unpacking-1_jl.fsm
14 People are following this question.
FlexSim can help you understand and improve any system or process. Transform your existing data into accurate predictions.
FlexSim is a fully 3D simulation software environment. FlexSim can be used to simulate any process in any industry.
FlexSim®, FlexSim Healthcare™, Problem Solved.®, the FlexSim logo, the FlexSim X-mark, and the FlexSim Healthcare logo with stylized Caduceus mark are trademarks of FlexSim Software Products, Inc. All rights reserved.
