Prioritize tokens in "Acquire Resource" Activity

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Siva_selvan Av asked Jun 20, '22 Siva_selvan Av answered Jun 20, '22

Prioritize tokens in "Acquire Resource" Activity

In my process, initially for 5 mins i need operator & then for next 10 mins its machine time. After that, for next 5 mins operator is involved.

I use 2 "Acquire Resource" activity, one at the start & another at the middle. At a moment, 2 tokens arrive at each Acquire Resource activity. Now I need to make priority to acquire the resource in 2nd Acquire Resource activity.

I don't know how to acquire a resource by prioritizing the incoming tokens & decide on which token to acquire the resource.

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.10

processflow tokens acquire resource prioritization token priority

Answer 1 · 2022-06-20T16:52:13Z

Siva_selvan Av answered Jun 20, '22

I tried pushing resources to a list & activities to a list.

Then first pull an available resource & then pull an activity from a list based on priority criteria and continue the process from there.
This is working as i expect. Not sure any other errors will occur in future

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Answer 2 · 2022-06-20T14:22:27Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Jun 20, '22 Siva_selvan Av commented Jun 20, '22

That's the Queue Strategy of the resource (back orders) - use SQL ORDER BY Puller.processStage DESC or something like that.

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Siva_selvan Av commented · Jun 20, 2022 at 04:48 PM

Yes, I tried it. But it will sort only within the list of resources available and not the tokens entering the acquire activity.

I tried pushing resources to a list & activities to a list.

Then first pull an available resource & then pull an activity from a list based on priority criteria and continue the process from there

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