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transport group must perform two operations at the same time

Greetings community, I have the following model in which a transport group of 3 will carry out the process of taking the boxes from queues 1,2,3 to queue 4,6, now that same transport group when the box leaves the conveyor belt a Forklift that is free or in turn or two forklifts depending on whether it is free or not, it should take from queue 5 to the rack as I develop that process flow I tried it but I had problems, please help me...

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Kavika F answered Kavika F commented

Hey @Kevin S7, you were pretty close on setting up the first part. Right now you're only specifying to unload boxes to Queue4. I changed it so it was 50% chance to unload to each one.

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(I renamed a few activities for clarity)

I then setup a similar system you had to move boxes from Queue5 to the Rack.

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You don't necessarily need a "Travel" activity, but you can add one between the load and unload if you want.

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@Kavika F The model is good, now how could I do so that of the 3 forklifts, a group of two forklifts are dedicated to picking up boxes where there are more tokens and where there are fewer, only 1 works and so vice versa, where there are more takeout orders, transportation two forklifts and where there is less, only one regardless of the sea of queue

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@Kavika F or in this case put a priority that the transporter must work where there are more tokens they must work 2

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Kavika F avatar image Kavika F ♦ Kevin S7 commented ·
In this case, you may want to use a list. If you push items to an ItemList, you can sort the list by QueueSize. Then you can have your forklifts pull work from the queue with the largest QueueSize to try to empty it faster. You could do the same thing for age - how long an item has been waiting in a Queue.
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