topic Re: How to set up a task executer's way of transport? in FlexSim Forum

How to set up a task executer's way of transport?

lilian_fonseca — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:08:48 GMT

[ FlexSim 16.0.1 ]

I have a crane that transports my flowitem from one side to the other. I would like that it comes back to start point right after the unloading process, instead of waiting for a new flowitem to arrive and then returning to grab it. How can I do this?

Re: How to set up a task executer's way of transport?

SCHamoen — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:21:28 GMT

Hi Lilian,

The trigger tabpage has an onresourceavailable trigger that has a standard option to travel to a home location. So if you make the origin of your products the home location, it will travel back to that position after it has no more tasks to do. The onresourceavailable trigger is fired when a taskexecuter runs out of tasks.

Re: How to set up a task executer's way of transport?

lilian_fonseca — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:32:55 GMT

@steven.hamoen Thank you, that really works. The only problem is that the crane's handle goes to a too short height when it returns to its home location. I've tried to solve this by using a visual trigger, but I couldn't figure this out yet. Do you have any suggestions for this issue?

Re: How to set up a task executer's way of transport?

SCHamoen — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:36:41 GMT

@Lilian Fonseca What if you pull in a new object and put it on the right height and let the crane return to that object. You can make that object really small or even invisible.

Re: How to set up a task executer's way of transport?

adrian_haws — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:46:11 GMT

@Lilian Fonseca @steven.hamoen This question has been moved to its separate post here, as it is a second question. There is an article about the "best practices" for using this Answers site found here.

Re: How to set up a task executer's way of transport?

lilian_fonseca — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:51:27 GMT

Thank you, that was a nice idea!