Robot transport triggered upstream

[marianuskick]

[ FlexSim 22.1.3 ]

robot.fsmFor a robot handling transport, can it be triggered by the upstream processed being finished before the downstream process is completed? In that sense, the robot acts as a buffer between the 2 processes.

So that it would pick up and free processor 1 in this situation:

[andrew_o2 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Manus K,

Attached below are two models that could potentially solve your issue. The first only uses the 3D environment, and the second uses process flow.

In the first model, a Queue with a max content of 1 placed after the first processor could free up the first processor before the second processor finishes.

In the second, process flow is used to make the robot hold the box until the second processor finishes.

robot-test.fsm

robot (1)_1.fsm

[marianuskick]

Thank you so much! The first one is ineffective because I need load and unloading interactions with both processors. But the second one is exactly what I was looking for.