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Bus System Simulation (Beginner)

ESS_Project.fsmHi there.

I'm a college student that is learning Flexsim for my last year. We've only touched on the very basics like Straight Conveyors, Decision Points, etc. I'm tasked to make a simulation based on a real life situation and my team chose Bus System Simulation. We're kind of stucked because our teacher told us to loop the straight conveyor and the 'passenger' will randomly alight from the 'bus' which is represented by a conveyor.


Would like to request help because our simulation now don't really look like a Bus System Simulation. We don't need it to be complicated because we've only learned the very basics (all of Flexsim Basic Tutorial, Conveyor Tutorial 1.1, A little bit of Process Flow only). We can't really follow the bus model simulation out there or AGV because we didn't learn that for this module.

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I don't see how the conveyor is a bus. What's controlling the queue when the 'bus' is always there?

You could have a container that is the bus travelling along it's route (conveyor system) stopping (at DPs) to pick up and drop off passengers (from Queues). Most of the logic would be on the decisionPoints.

This is better suited to process flow and/or AGVs as you pointed out. @david.chan who's setting this?

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