How do I make transporter go to random Racks and collect the goods ?

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Jia W asked Jan 27, '21 Jason Lightfoot edited Jan 27, '21

How do I make transporter go to random Racks and collect the goods ?

Hello i would like to asked is there a way to make the transporter to collect a specific number of items from the 3 random racks connected ( e.g. 10 items ) I've tried using the SLQ order by random, however the transporter only collect 1 item from rack 1 and the subsequent items are from rack 3. Any expert here can guild me so that i know what changes i can make to improve my model

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FlexSim 20.1.3

flexsim 20.1.3 warehouse

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Answer 1 · 2021-01-27T17:23:57Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Jan 27, '21 Jason Lightfoot edited Jan 27, '21

You have not followed the answer in this post about using process flow as far as I can see.

You either need to use the storage system example in that post, or maintain your own list of items across all the racks and randomly select/pull 10 from there.

If you want the transporter to pick up 10 items you have to set its capacity to 10. If you want to control which ones it picks up (without process flow) you can look at the breakTo options on the transporter.

If you use process flow you will have more control and power to do more complex things.

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