How can you make a TaskExecutorflowitem respond to process flow?

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Jarek O asked Apr 26 2017 at 12:53 PM Jarek O answered May 02 2017 at 6:56 AM

How can you make a TaskExecutorflowitem respond to process flow?

Hi,

I am trying to move a taskexecutorflowitem to a processor via a process flow task sequence...After a lot of trying nothing really worked out. In attachment you can find a dummy model of my problem.

Thanks in advance,

Jarekerrorteflowitems.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.0.3

taskexecutor flowitem

errorteflowitems.fsm (25.7 KiB)

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Answer 1 · 2017-04-26T17:54:56Z

Kari Payton answered Apr 26 2017 at 5:54 PM Regan Blackett edited Apr 28 2017 at 5:49 PM

@Jarek O Try this :

1. Create a label (I called it "processorLocation") and set the value to the location of the object as an array.

2. Reference the task executor in the sequence you created to the token label from the list "token.pulled"

3. On travel to location, reference the location array that you created. 6433-errorteflowitems-1.fsm

travel.png (29.0 KiB)

6433-errorteflowitems-1.fsm (24.7 KiB)

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Jarek O commented · Apr 27 2017 at 7:01 AM

Thank you so much for your response. This works indeed, but isn't there a more elegant to do this? Any idea how I could let it travel to object instead of location?

Thanks in advance,

Jarek

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Regan Blackett ♦ Jarek O commented · Apr 27 2017 at 1:56 PM

@Jarek O

I was looking over this model and found something I've submitted to the developers to look at. Apparently if your Task Executor flowitems are created by a source object, they will not respond to Travel activities in process flow. As a work around I would use a source activity in process flow, followed by a create objects activity that creates Task Executor Flowitems into your Queue. Then they will respond to Travel activities, properly traveling to an object.

It's also good practice to move travelers like this into the model space, and preserve their global position before traveling to another object.

Here is a very simple example of using the workaround:

traveling-teflowitems.fsm

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traveling-teflowitems.fsm (17.1 KiB)

Jarek O Regan Blackett ♦ commented · Apr 27 2017 at 2:38 PM

Regan, thanks a lot for your response.

Unfortunately in my real model I will have to use a source table to schedule my arrivals of the TEflowitems. Something that is not possible in the source activity... On top of that my global list structure has to be preserved as well..

Thank you for putting forward the issue to the developers.

Jarek

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Answer 2 · 2017-05-02T06:56:43Z

Jarek O answered May 02 2017 at 6:56 AM

@regan.blackett , Thanks a lot for your answer.

I was already thinking it must have been something in that direction, but I'm not experienced enough in Flexsim to find this on myself.

About the Source activity, I only seem to be able to export a table to the interface window and not import one... Probably I'm overseeing something because it's strange if only an export utility would 've been implemented.

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