How can I make a TaskExecuter work as a truck transporting FlowItems?

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LUIS ERNESTO PNCN asked Apr 5, '19 Steven Hamoen answered Apr 5, '19

How can I make a TaskExecuter work as a truck transporting FlowItems?

I'm new on flexsim and I'm trying to simulate a process of loading and unloading a truck using 2 Transporters and 1 TaskExecuter.

The TaskExecuter must follow a route in a cyclical way (I designed that route using straight paths and control points), this TaskExecuter begins closer to the Source1 on a "ControlPoint3" for being loaded and then it has to go to the "ControlPoint4" closer to the yellow platform called "Shape27" for being unloaded by the Transporter1 that is on the platform, once it has been unloaded it would go back to the beginning to repeat the process while the Transporter2 takes the unloaded FlowItems from the Transporter1 and put them in some part of the building. It looks like this:

However, when I tried to run the model I got this error message:

I designed this model based on this YouTube video, although I did not get the results I expected:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMxn7C7PAa8

So, is there any way to solve this? The model doesn't necessarily have to be built this way, it is just that I don't have any idea how to make it properly.

conalca.fsm

warehouse agv network transporters route trucks as a task executor

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Answer 1 · 2019-04-05T11:53:05Z

Steven Hamoen answered Apr 5, '19

@LUIS ERNESTO PNCN First tip, also work through the tutorials in FlexSim because you made some basic errors:

1. The queue is sending the products on so the transporter is connected to the queue with a S connection. This you did, but on the source you also checked on the "Use transport" option. But on the source you don't want this and you don't have a connection. That is why the error come up.

2. You can't send products to a shape (the connection from the queue is to a shape). The shape is not a fixed resource so it can't handle flowitems. If you change the Shape into a queue your model will start to run

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