Force Task Executer to take something right away if available

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Patrick Cloutier asked Nov 11, '16 Jeff Nordgren commented Nov 15, '16

Force Task Executer to take something right away if available

In the attached sample model, I'm trying to force a TE to take a green box (if there's one available) as soon as he drops a blue one. If there is no green box, he just continues as usual. It needs to be the same TE that dropped the blue who takes the green when that happens.

I assume it probably involves pushing a new Task to the top of the Sequence whenever "Green ready" is fired and to force it to be done by the same TE. I just don't know how to do those things...

Help will be very much appreciated. Thanks,

release-but-stay.fsm

process flow task executer

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-12T06:08:24Z

Jeff Nordgren answered Nov 12, '16 Jeff Nordgren commented Nov 15, '16

@Patrick Cloutier

Patrick,

I think my solution is pretty simple as well. Basically, after a lift truck drops off a flowitem to Q2, I have it run a Sub Flow to check for the existence of a green box. If there is one, it will Pull the flowitem off of List1 (GreenBoxes) where it was pushed to that list in the OnEntry trigger of Q3. Then the lift truck will travel to Q3 and load the green box, then travel to Q4 where the green box is unloaded. If there are no green boxes to pick up it just returns from the Sub Flow without doing anything.

release-but-stay-jn1.fsm

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Jeff Nordgren commented · Nov 14, 2016 at 09:24 PM

@Patrick Cloutier

A slightly different version of the model.

release-but-stay-jn2.fsm

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release-but-stay-jn2.fsm (36.8 KiB)

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Jeff Nordgren Jeff Nordgren commented · Nov 14, 2016 at 11:34 PM

@Patrick Cloutier

Patrick,

Did any of the answers to your question work for you? Or is there still a problem?

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Patrick Cloutier commented · Nov 14, 2016 at 11:57 PM

Thanks but I haven't had time to work on this since Friday. I'll reply when I'm there probably tomorrow. Thanks a lot !

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Jeff Nordgren Patrick Cloutier commented · Nov 15, 2016 at 06:55 PM

@Patrick Cloutier

Patrick,

If you're interested at all, here is the same model as jn2 but in FlexSim Version 2017. It uses the new Dot Syntax style.

release-but-stay-jn2-v17.fsm

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release-but-stay-jn2-v17.fsm (37.0 KiB)

Patrick Cloutier commented · Nov 15, 2016 at 08:45 PM

Since I don't have v17, its telling that model can't be updated.

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Jeff Nordgren Patrick Cloutier commented · Nov 15, 2016 at 11:03 PM

@Patrick Cloutier

Patrick,

You can get V17 by logging into your FlexSim account and going to Downloads and clicking on the More Versions button next to the main blue Download button. This will allow you to download the beta version of 2017.

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Answer 2 · 2016-11-11T21:15:25Z

Regan Blackett answered Nov 11, '16 Regan Blackett edited Nov 11, '16

@Patrick Cloutier

The simplest way to to do this in the model as you have it configured is probably to let the green box have an item type that isn't 1 or 2 (your red and blue box types) and let the resource have a Queue Strategy. Since the Resource uses a list behind the scenes you can sort the the requests using an ORDER BY query in the Queue Strategy. So saying something like:

ORDER BY Puller.dest DESC

Will sort the requests on the resource using a descending sort on your dest label. So if the green box was assigned itemtype 3, and and that value gets copied to your dest label like the red and green boxes, then if there's a green box, that request on the resources gets filled first if it's there.

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