Cross-docking simulation with tasksequence

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Eduardo Perez asked Apr 10 2024 at 9:09 PM Jeanette F commented Apr 22 2024 at 8:17 PM

Cross-docking simulation with tasksequence

Hi, I'm getting some troubles with my simulation of a cross-docking solution.

In my simulation I have eight sources and eight sinks (represented as trucks). each Income truck has a table of different products to unload and they do on pairs, so they send the product to 4 queues. Each queue has a dispatcher with an operator assigned to it. The output of the products follows the same scheme, 4 output queues that each serves to two possible client trucks, and each output truck is gonna carry a single type of product.

I had the model with simple connections but I wan't implement it using task sequence but I just can't figure out how should i do it...

I adjunct the model working and the poor try I made of getting it to work

cross-docking-case1.fsm
cross-docking-case1-processflow.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.0.15

process flow tasksequence

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cross-docking-case1-processflow.fsm (2.9 MiB)

cross-docking-case1.fsm (2.8 MiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Apr 11 2024 at 6:58 AM

Process Flow is a logic level. You can do almost everything in this logic level. And you have to do it all by yourself. In your 3D model you use several automatic features:

Choose a taskexecuter by center port connection,
Load from same loadstation,
Capacity of Taskexecuter,
transport to a destination object.

You start in your process Flow with an item to load. Please use global list instead of a local list, because you find entries in the model tree.

You know about an item a value of label Type and Object where it is by property up. You need data for a destination by type or queue, a taskexecuter doing a transport job. Then you collect two items of same type or residing in same queue from a list by a single query or multiple queries in pull form list activities. You load both items from a run sub flow sequence of activities. You let travel a chosen taskexecuter to a destination and you unload both items in a sub flow.

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Apr 22 2024 at 8:17 PM

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Answer 1 · 2024-04-11T12:40:14Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Apr 11 2024 at 12:40 PM

You can push the items to a global list directly in the "Use Transport" field. This has the added benefit that certain parameters, like the destination, are written to the item as labels. In the attached model I also write a reference to the input queue to a label, so the task executers can pull from 'their' queue.

In the Process Flow I create one token per task executer. These then pull two items from the list and transport them one by one. Note that because multiple items are pulled at a time, the resulting label is an array that contains all the pulled items. You need to load and unload them individually though. For this you can use a subflow and run through it once per entry in the array.

cross-docking-case1-processflow_example.fsm

To get closer to the 3d-model logic, you would need to make some further adjustments:

- Only pull a single item at first, then note down its type and try to pull additional items of the same type, so all pulled items will go to the same destination.

- Separate the load and unload into two subflows; first load all pulled items in a subflow, then travel to the destination queue, then unload all items in a subflow and finally travel back to the input queue.

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cross-docking-case1-processflow-example.fsm (68.4 KiB)

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