Feeding processors with several queues

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Abdelrahman Mahmoud S asked Apr 2, '20 Jeff Nordgren answered Apr 7, '20

Feeding processors with several queues

I am making a Car Maintenance Service Center where the cars that need to be fixed will be waiting in the parking area and whenever a processor is free, a specified operator drive that car from the parking lot to the desired processor. The parking lot has 4 rows, each row contains 10 lanes.

Question 1: How do I make the operator to follow FIFO by driving the cars from ALL queues not only from queue 1?

Question 2: Is there a chance that if Queue 2 Lane 3 has got free so the car in Queue 3 Lane 3 gets into the front space (Queue 2 Lane 3)?

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.0.1

queue strategy

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Answer 1 · 2020-04-07T14:45:41Z

Jeff Nordgren answered Apr 7, '20

@Abdelrahman Mahmoud S,

Attached is a sample model that will have the operator get the longest waiting flowitem from the queues. Take a look at the model and see it this approach will solve your problem.

I don't understand what you are asking in #2.

Thanks.

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