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How to make transporter travel shortest route?

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We are currently working on a warehousing model and we would like the transporter to pick up the objects from the queue, and place it to the shortest available storage rack and in this case it should be rack 2. However it keeps going to rack 1 first.

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The "Send To Port" field in Queue1 is set to "First Available". Queue1 will go through its port connections in order and send the next flow item to the first destination that has capacity. If you want to fill Rack2 first, then you could make this the first port connection. Just as a general comment, I would suggest addressing any exception (error) messages you have to ensure your model is behaving the way you intended.


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You can add a list of available rack cells and their location in model space. Then you can pull the cell or in your case the rack of the cell, which has got the shortest distance to queue.

In FlexSim 18 you need to write a lot more source code to accomplish this. From FlexSim 19.2 on that is all implemented in warehousing module.

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