Random picking

[jia_w]

[ FlexSim 20.1.3 ]

Hello i would like to ask it is necessary to create a process flow in order to make the transporter to go to the connected racks to pick the items randomly?

https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/96839/how-to-make-the-transporter-go-to-random-connect-r.html?...

The attachment above is the process flow for random picking but it do not have a fix source.

1. if i follow the process flow from the link above, is there a way to change the ending (sink) to the queue (which is the work station in my simulation)

2.If i do not follow the process flow and i have the transporter connected to 5 racks. Is there a way for me to make the transporter to collect randomly from the 5 connected racks?

Here is my simulation, sorry for the lack of knowledge in flexsim as i am super new to the application.

Final.fsm

[jason_lightfootVL7B4 · Accepted solution]

If you don't use process flow then you could push the items to a list and pull them from there. The pulling is done at the workstation, and the transporter job is created at the rack. If you pull randomly then the transporter jobs created by the racks reflect that.

Example of changes attached.final_jl.fsm

[jia_w]

thank you so much