How to get and an AGV to stop on an CP for a set time using Advance AGV Template

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chembra13 asked Dec 19, '23 Jason Lightfoot commented Jan 2, '24

How to get and an AGV to stop on an CP for a set time using Advance AGV Template

I am a very new user to Flexsim software. I am trying to get a AGVs to stop on a control point for a specific amount of time while using the Advanced AGV Template. I have try to use the waypoint method where you put a delay in at each CP and the AGV just ignore it and drive over them. I am trying to get the AGVs to stop at each station for 420 seconds to simulate the tact time. I have attach and image below and the simulation that I am currently working on. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

I am using 2023 Flexsim

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FlexSim 23.2.3

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Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ commented · Jan 02 at 03:05 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-12-19T21:03:30Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Dec 19, '23 Jason Lightfoot edited Dec 21, '23

Detect the CP pre-arrival event and create and dispatch to the triggering AGV a preempting task sequence to travel to the cp and delay for the time needed. Once that task sequence has completed the AGV will resume its original travel.

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chembra13 commented · Dec 21, 2023 at 04:53 PM

Can you go into a bit more detail on this answer. I have only been using FlexSim for a week and don't know how to do what you are explaining in your answer.

Would this solution be able to only stop and pause on the specific cps that are in the picture above. The AGVs will travel across several other cp before getting to these and I do not need it stopping on every cp it sees.

I thank you again for any help you can provide.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ chembra13 commented · Dec 21, 2023 at 05:50 PM

Its just this:

And you add the delaying CPs to the object flow as instances.

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