how to set up the forklifter to wait for 3 items, stack them and then deliver to a queue, instead of 1 at a time
transporter loading several items
FlexSim 18.1.0
@yoni A
It all depends where the forklifer is "waiting" to pickup the flowitems. If from a queue, I would use batching. If not, you would probably have to send your model or a sample model of the problem so that we can see how the model is working.
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finsihed-good.png, it is loading from a conveyor to a queue, it has to wait for 3 items to be finished from the line and then carry all 3 stacked up to a queue @Jeff Nordgren
Have you looked at this previous answer, https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/21455/how-to-make-the-forklift-transport-more-than-one-i.html?
To do what you are describing, you can not do it with just a Conveyor object. Because a Conveyor object only has one flowitem ready to leave at any given point, the one at the end of the Conveyor. And until that flowitem leaves, another flowitem can not be ready which would call for a transporter.
The way I would fix that is to use a "Dummy" piece of Conveyor which would really be a Queue object with a Conveyor graphic on it. Then I would batch 3 items in the Dummy/Queue/Conveyor and use the Visual Item Placement of Horizontal Line. Then the Operator would pickup all three flowitems at the same time.
If you need assistance in doing this, you could send us your model or a sample model and we could help you with that.
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