Hello,
I would like to from my source from time to time appear one people and then he should go to one of the two queue (it should be completely random where exactly), take the item and go to the sink directly and disappear.
I used already blocks: Source -> Create Person -> Walk so my people are appearing and going to queue but I'm not sure what the next step to people take the item and go to the sink.
Thanks for every help!
Maciej
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Hello,
Thanks for reply.
I would like to my people take the items from rack's and transfer it to sink and disappear :)
Please find the link with my model.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ankkAwi02vVMqa3KR2TsvEm6Eth_5U6z/view?usp=sharing
Thank you!
Maciej
Hello @Maciej C4,
After the walk I use the Find item activity to search for an item the is in the destination rack. That item is then moved to the person and the person walks to the sink.
Hello,
Thanks, you really help me.
Unfortunately I realized that it doesn't work as I would like to
Let's assumed that we have 3 types of items (with different inter-arrival time) and every type should go to appropriate rack.
How can I implemented rules to people would choose random not empty rack?
I mean that for example when for a certain period of time third rack is empty people should choose between first and second rack.
Model: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E_FRb7FZ7RVOpJ8T5KT0Tht8r15au2-w/view?usp=sharing
Thanks, really appreciate your help.
Maciej
You can use the "Use Max Wait Timer" option in the Find Item activity. It let's you specify that the token should be send to a different activity if no fitting item could be found within the given time.
The token can then be send to a second Find Item activity in which it looks for a random item.
(Rightclick on the file attachment -> Save Link/Target As (might be called differently depending on the browser) -> Set "Save as type" to All Types -> Save with a name ends with .fsm)
Hello @Maciej C4,
You could also change your process flow so that it looks for the item at random and then based on the item it pulls it assign the rack like the following
Hello Jeanette and Felix.
Firstly, thank you for your help.
Jeanette probably that's excatly what I wanted to receive.
But last question - what excatly mean 'token.item.up' in Assign labels? What is this formula responsible for in a model?
token.item.up is a bit of FlexScript that looks at the current item and then goes to the tree and finds the node that currently houses the item. For example if the item was in a queue called OutgoingParts, token.item.up would add a pointer to OutgoingParts.
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