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

[lilian_fonseca]

[ 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?

[SCHamoen · Accepted solution]

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.

[lilian_fonseca]

@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?

[SCHamoen]

@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.

[adrian_haws]

@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.

[lilian_fonseca]

Thank you, that was a nice idea!