Load FloWorks product with FlowTaskExecutor using TaskSequence

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Jeremy R asked Jun 19, '22 Patrick Zweekhorst answered Jun 20, '22

Load FloWorks product with FlowTaskExecutor using TaskSequence

How can you make a FlowTaskExecutor load FloWorks product into its FlowTank using a TaskSequence?

I have a FlowTaskExecutor, and I want to be able to tell it when to load FloWorks product from a stockpile according to a process flow. Normally, a TaskSequence (or explicit process flow activity) would be ideal for this kind of thing. However, I can't see any TaskSequence Types specific to FloWorks.

I tried using the regular FlexSim "TASKTYPE_LOAD", but as expected, that caused the FlowTaskExecutor to load the stockpile object itself, rather than pulling content from the stockpile.

Are there FloWorks-specific TaskSequence Types that I cannot find in the documentation? Or is there a better way to achieve what I'm trying to do?

FloWorks Tutorial 3 is similar in concept to what I'm trying to do, but only explains how to do it with TaskExecutors as flow items, whereas I want to have a static FlowTaskExecutor that I can issue commands to.

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.0.0

FloWorks tasksequence flowtaskexecutor

Answer 1 · 2022-06-20T07:26:10Z

Patrick Zweekhorst answered Jun 20, '22

Hi @Jeremy R ,

If you want to use ProcessFlow to have a better control of the loading process I would use something like the flow in the attached model. This means that you don’t use a loading arm and a loading point since these object already take control of the loading process. Instead of this we will make the connections ourself when we want them.

Please take a look at the model and check if you have any questions about the flow. If that is the case I am happy to explain it a bit more.

Patrick

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