I am trying to replicate the process in the simulation as how it is done in the real-world. Crane 1 would transport the item from a queue, align up with crane 2 and transfer the item over to crane 2 for crane 2 to transport it off to a separator. Is it possible to do so? If not what should I do?
Is there a location that crane 1 puts down the item for crane 2 to then pick up the item? Or are you saying they pass the object in the air?
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You can use process flow to make a task sequence in which one crane will hand-off the item to the next crane. This will work easiest if you have one meeting point. In this model, I used a station named MeetingPoint, floating in the air, and just had the cranes Load/Unload/Travel to it. You could also use a BasicFR as the meeting point, and you could also make it invisible if you wanted.
If you want a more arbitrary meeting point, you may have to do some calculations before the travel task to get the location. Perhaps a Load, Custom Code where you calculate the meeting point, then two Travel tasks for both cranes to travel to the meeting point, then MoveObject to Crane2.
With Crane.fsmI am using the first method, the cranehandoff, but not sure why the cranes are not working? attached is my program.
In your process flow activities, you need to define your task executers correctly (token.resource / crane1, token.resource2 / crane2). In order to get a more smooth transition, rather than loading and unloading the items into the station, I had it load crane1, both move to the same position, then move the item to crane2. Then I had it unload the item to Work bay 1, to get you started.
On top of the program that you had helped me with, I wanted to add in extra unloading bays. To do that, I used the decide module, sending the token to random connectors, I set 3, each unload for each bay. Problem now is that, for some reason the unloading stops after one unload, it doesn't continue the next unloading.
And i would like to use the crane to send the item to the sink, so can I presume that the steps would just be a reverse of the unloading? So to do this I have to remove sink and add the steps behind the release?
If i would like to use operators for this process, is there any difference whether i use the people activity sets versus using operators to transport in the workbench?
with-crane-jk.fsm
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