How to pick maximum no. from 2 queues available with least walking distance?

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S C asked Aug 6, '20 Ben Wilson commented Aug 28, '20

How to pick maximum no. from 2 queues available with least walking distance?

Hi Flexsim guru

From queue 4, it is easily to set an operator to pick 10 items in a batch.

However, from queue 1 and queue 2, how an operator to pick the maximum no. to minimize the walking distance? As from this simulation, operator 2 walking in between queue 1 and queue 2 many times to fulfill 10 items and walk to queue 3.

I want to have operator 2 to pick round robin for max no. from the queue, if not enough to 10, i.e. max capacity for operator 2, pick the remaining qty from another queue.

Thanks for your help~!

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FlexSim 20.1.3

flexsim 20.1.3 picking pick from different queues

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Aug 28, 2020 at 09:16 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-08-06T06:30:30Z

Joerg Vogel answered Aug 6, '20

@flexsnewbie, please think about to give you another user name here at this answers-site. And your question is answered by combining two picklist options in the operators’ Break To function and Passto function.

Load from the same station and shortest travel distance

You will integrate both source code blocks into one block. Before you do this, you must understand how the mechanism of break to works and what the commands do.

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