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How to make operator walk to table and do some animation

Hello,

In the attached model, I made a simple process flow to create "busy" state for operators after loading of material. In actual case, operators need to do something after loading. So loading process is not just dropping items onto the Queue. So the busy state is to simulate that operators are still busy.

However, in my model, operators are standing while they are busy. I want to make them move around and do some animation to have a better visualization.

I want to make as follow;

After loading of material,

Operator1 come back to source1

wait for some time

then walk to table1

do some animation at table1 for sometime

then walk to table2

do some animation at table2 for sometime.

then come back to source1.

..........................................

Same for Operator2:

after loading of material, walk to source2, wait for sometime, walk to table3, do some animation, then walk to table4, do some animation, then go back to source2.

Could you please help me how to do that? Thanks a lot.


Operator walk to tables and do animation while they are busy.fsm

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Add labels for the worktables (use type pointer as either an array or two labels eg. worktableA and worktableB) to the operator - then access them in the travel activities as:

current.worktableA  // since 'current' is the operator

or if you set up an array of worktables:

current.worktables[1]

If you later need to duplicate the operators - select their respective worktables too and copy them as a group and the labels will automatically be updated to point to the newly copied worktables.

Use the Run Animation activity in your process flow to reflect the appropriate activity.


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Mike avatar image Mike commented ·
Hi Jason,

Could you please help me modify in my model if you don't mind? Sorry.

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In the model, both operator1 and operator2 are current. how can I differentiate operator 1 and operator2 because I want operator 1 should walk to table1 and table2 and operator2 walk to table 3 and table4. Thanks.
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Jason Lightfoot avatar image Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ Mike commented ·

Here's one way using the mentioned approach. Let us know if anything is unclear.

operator-workstationsActivities.fsm

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