Scheduled Pickup

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Kevin Megee asked Jan 31, '20 Joerg Vogel commented Feb 8, '20

Scheduled Pickup

Flexsim Community,

In the model attached, I'm struggling to create a trigger for the transporter to pick up items from the "Finished Goods" queue and deliver the item to the "Warehouse" queue every two hours (or X amount of time). The goal would be to see the accumulation in the finished goods queue based on the warehouse scheduled pickup and try to find the most efficient schedule. The full model I'm creating does not use Process Flows. I'm more comfortable using Triggers, so if the solution could use triggers, that'd help greatly. Thanks

warehouse-pickup.fsm

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FlexSim 19.1.1

scheduled arrival queue output port control

warehouse-pickup.fsm (25.9 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Feb 08, 2020 at 02:12 AM

I won’t argue against process flow, but if you aren’t familiar with this logic procedures you can add model user events, that got a replication interval of 2 hours. Or and that is a similar workaround for process flow, you create a process of 3D objects that control partly your model. You would put those objects into a plane to hide them while your model runs. It isn’t a clever approach, because a 3D process consumes more computing capacity than a process flow.

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Answer 1 · 2020-01-31T22:10:12Z

tannerp answered Jan 31, '20

Hi @Kevin Megee,

Process Flow is going to be your best friend in situations like this. 3D objects aren't going to produce triggers every X number of hours like Process Flow sources can. Starting with an Inter-Arrival Source, you can create a token every two hours (I used 2 minutes), acquire the transporter, move the items (I assumed that you'll move them all at once), and you're good to go. Thank you for uploading a sample model. I've updated it to reflect the logic I described.

warehouse-pickup-example.fsm

warehouse-pickup-example.fsm (32.5 KiB)

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