Use 2 transporter to pick a specific quantity from a same queue based on avail.

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Varun Rawal asked Jul 23 2018 at 6:48 PM Varun Rawal commented Jul 24 2018 at 7:14 PM

Use 2 transporter to pick a specific quantity from a same queue based on avail.

Please find my model. I was able to reach and create two transporters to pick 4 pallets from the queue.

However, as you see I want my other task executor (Tcar21) to be acquired soon the prior is transporting items. What I was thinking is to use a decision point in process flow so that which ever task executor it is i.e Tcar 1 or Tcar 21 it would send tokens to the ports accordingly. However, I want to acquire the second Tcar i.e Tcar 21 soon the first one gets loaded and is travelling to the other direction, and use Tcar21 to load another 4 pallets and transport it to the other end and so on

Also Can I load 4 items together as one batch? and how? Do i just load the whole queue containing 4 pallets? or is there another way.

Thanks in advancejcagvsingle-002.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 18.1.1

process flow tasksequence load multiple item task executor dispatching strategies

jcagvsingle-002.fsm (3.6 MiB)

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-23T20:33:48Z

Joshua S answered Jul 23 2018 at 8:33 PM Sumana P edited Jul 25 2018 at 12:00 PM

Is this what you are looking for? I simplified it a little, but kept the basic design.13311-jcagvsingle-002.fsm

13311-jcagvsingle-002.fsm (56.5 KiB)

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Varun Rawal commented · Jul 23 2018 at 9:00 PM

@Joshua S I see it is working as I wanted.

However, I see a difference I used a sub flow to load the items so that it takes into account the loading time and unloading time I think. But in the one your sent. it is picking all 4 up in no time? I definitely like this idea but do you think I should put a delay after all 4 are moved and a delay before all 4 are moved to the unload station.

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Joshua S Varun Rawal commented · Jul 23 2018 at 9:05 PM

I did not notice the load and unload times you had assigned to the AGVs you are using to transport the items. Adding delays to accommodate your loading and unload times will work.

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Varun Rawal Joshua S commented · Jul 24 2018 at 7:14 PM

This definitely worked after putting a delay. Thanks

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