Interface of forklift and elevator

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balaji s asked May 27 2016 at 6:06 AM Brandon Peterson edited Jun 09 2016 at 12:55 PM

Interface of forklift and elevator

I am creating a model of our racking solutions.

I need to move the material from one ground area to another area on the first floor, so I used an elevator.

My problem is that I need to interface forklift and elevator for combined operation.

Please tell me how to do the interface of two transporters.

Software Version:

FlexSim 7.0.6

task sequence coordinated task sequence vehicle to vehicle transfer

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Answer 1 · 2016-05-27T14:07:35Z

Marco Baccalaro answered May 27 2016 at 2:07 PM Marco Baccalaro commented May 28 2016 at 1:32 PM

Look at this model: forklift-and-elevator.fsm I used process flow to do it from the source's Transport Dispatcher trigger. The zone is used to avoid more than one token per time in the task sequence.

forklift-and-elevator.fsm (22.0 KiB)

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Arun Kr commented · May 28 2016 at 7:29 AM

Thanks for the model Marco

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balaji s commented · May 28 2016 at 9:54 AM

Thanks for the model sir. Since i am in not in the workstation i could not run this file. I will check this is on monday and ask clarifications/queries, if any.

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balaji s commented · May 28 2016 at 10:05 AM

Dear Sir,

In this same model, i have another question.

In one of the area, transporter unloads the material and rotates 180 degree to come back through the network nodes. Since it is confined room, practically the transporter dont have any space to rotate there. I need to control the rotation of transporter and the transporter needs to come in reverse. after some distance it needs to rotate. Kindly tell how can i make this?

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Marco Baccalaro balaji s commented · May 28 2016 at 1:32 PM

This is more difficult trough network nodes. You'll need to create your own Forklift starting from a Basic TE in order to control his offset movements. An alternative could be to use the AGV network instead of the network nodes.

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Answer 2 · 2016-05-28T14:59:20Z

Arun Kr answered May 28 2016 at 2:59 PM Matthew Gillespie commented May 31 2016 at 3:51 PM

Dear Balaji,

When the transporter unloads set the flipthreshhold variable value of the transporter to 0. So the transporter will return back in the reverse direction. When the transporter travels back to the necessary distance, change the flipthreshold variable value to 180 using the arrival trigger of a network node.

I hope this will help.

Regards,

Arun KR

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