Several AGV on the same parking spot

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loick asked Nov 25, '23 Jason Lightfoot commented Nov 30, '23

Several AGV on the same parking spot

Hi everyone,

I would like to put several AGV waiting on the same parking spot but I can't find how.

In my loop, an AGV drop an item and is called to the next workstation. If the item in the workstation is still on it, the AGV waits next to the the workstation on a parking spot.

As you can see below, the dropping point of the machine 6 calls the AGV. If there is nothing, the AGV goes to the parking point next to the dropping point of the machine 6.

The problem is when there is another AGV coming and when the parking spot is already full : The new AGV remains stuck below and even when the parking spot become available, it doesn't move anymore.

I resolved this problem by putting several parking spot next to the first one but I have a limit of the number of object I can put (student licence). In order to save a maximum of object, I would like to resolve this problem by putting only one parking spot.

Then I tried to increase the number of allocation of the control point that does the parking spot but it changes nothing

Do you have any idea to solve my problem ?

Thanks a lot,

Loïck

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.2.2

agv parking spot

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 30, 2023 at 01:51 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-11-27T07:15:25Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Nov 27, '23 Jason Lightfoot commented Nov 27, '23

You can check the option to not remove the pulled value from the list in the activity that checks for a parking spot. As long as the control point allows that many allocatios this will enable multiple AGVs to use the parking spot at the same time.

Note: By default the parking spot list (like any new list to add to the model) uses the "Unique Values Only" option. So you do not have to remove the activities that normally push the parking cp back to the list.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 27, 2023 at 11:48 AM

Also if the spot had a certain capacity, you could uncheck Unique Values and push the spot to the list multiple times to reflect how many can park there.

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