If I have a drive in rack and start filling it, it is filled up nicely from the back:
But if I switch on the "Drive Through Rack" option it starts filling from the front including a taskexecuter that first drives to the other side of the rack:
I would expect that it fills the rack exactly the same way but drives on toward the end of the rack and not drive back to the beginning. Do I understand this wrong?
In designing the drive-through rack, we referenced various videos to see how this works. From what we found, a drive through system does not mean the fork truck enters on one side and leaves on another. This would prevent the use of the rack's bottom 1-2 levels for storage. Instead, a drive-through rack means that the rack is unloaded from a different side than it is loaded, enabling FIFO storage.
@anthony.johnson Ok this makes perfect sense. The problem I had was that I'm modelling shuttle systems in racks. In that case they are allowed to go out the back so I was thinking: "He they already built in the feature to leave at the back" ;-)
@steven.hamoen The drive-in rack was designed specifically with forklifts in mind. It adds additional pick/place offset operations to get the forklift into and out of the rack properly. However, it likely wouldn't work as well with something like an AGV that's part of an ASRS system. That said, you might try just using a regular rack. If you want it to look like a drive-in rack, you can give it a drive-in rack's visualization.
@anthony.johnson Yes I was struggling with the extra movements also. So in the end I just made all the movements myself and indeed used a rack to prevent the extra movements. With Process Flow this was not too complicated ;-)
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