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Actual you can not do this. A crane like any other Taskexecuter only supports processes and is not a source of an output. His throughput is defined by motion parameters like speed, distance, acceleration and his availability in processes. If you feed randomly a crane to do transports mainly at the end of an hour time slot, he won’t be able to do them in this slot. Your model logic must organize his utilization in a manner that he can achieve your goal. If you can not estimate on logical conditions which transport job must have priority over another, then you can only use a model to find an empirical solution for your problem by variation of transport or material processing orders. But this is exactly the purpose of a model in FlexSim. It tests on variable conditions the output and utilization of resources. Maybe you need to freeze your model every hour input conditions and run it based on this conditions several times until you find an optimum for the next statistical hour. It depends on intervals of certainty, when you are sure of random events.

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