Problem with Adv. Transporter model
Posted: Thursday 24 November, 2016 - 16:11
Dear Community,
For a school assignment I need to build the following case:
At the expedition departement of the factory, finished goods come off a conveyor, whereafter a forklift transports them to the storage area.
From the storage area an other forklift transports the products into trucks which are heading towards the customer.
The factory produces 2 products, Product A & Product B
Product A is made on assembly line 1 & 2, is already packed into boxes and ready to be transprted straight to the storage area. The arrival-time of Product A is NegExp(200). For the two lines together, a maximum of 4 product can be waiting until the lines get overflown. The forklift can transport 2 units of Product A at the same time. The pick and place with the forklift takes 10 seconds.
Product B is made on assembly line 3. At the end of this line, the products are placed into wooden crates (containers), which takes no additional time. One crate can fit One product B. The arrival time of Product B is NegExp(150). Same restriction as Product A, only 4 products can be waiting until the line overflows/shuts down. Next to that, there should always be enough crates in storage at the end of the line to pack the Products, but is restricted to a max of 10 crates. These crates come from the crate-storage. This storage holds more then enough crates. Each forklift can only transport 1 crate a time. Same as with Product A, the pick and the place with the forklift takes 10 seconds.
From the storage-area the products area loaded into trucks. This storage-area has unlimited space. Each truck can carry 50 boxes of Product A OR 30 crates of Product B, mixing the products is not allowed. On average 3 trucks arrive per 8 hours. The distance between the storage-area and the trucks is 10 meters en a forklift transports the products to the trucks.
Each forklift has a speed of 20km/h and an acceleration of 6m/s
There is a fixed path between the lines and the storage area, this path is already created in the model.
Now,I have the following problems:
-First, we use the student edition of ED, so I'm limited to a max of 30 atoms (thats why my upload doesn't contain a network controller)
-Second, my forklifts don't travel via the paths but randomly across the model....
-Third, my model so far contains everything untill the storage area. I still have to build the part where the trucks get loaded but I don't know how, because of the 30 atom limit.
Is there anyone here that can give me some advise on how to build this?
As far as I can see, the labels I've put on the models work as they should and the forklift transports them to the correct destination (Product A directly to storage-area, crates to assembler, assebled product B to storage-area).
Kind regards,
Mitch
For a school assignment I need to build the following case:
At the expedition departement of the factory, finished goods come off a conveyor, whereafter a forklift transports them to the storage area.
From the storage area an other forklift transports the products into trucks which are heading towards the customer.
The factory produces 2 products, Product A & Product B
Product A is made on assembly line 1 & 2, is already packed into boxes and ready to be transprted straight to the storage area. The arrival-time of Product A is NegExp(200). For the two lines together, a maximum of 4 product can be waiting until the lines get overflown. The forklift can transport 2 units of Product A at the same time. The pick and place with the forklift takes 10 seconds.
Product B is made on assembly line 3. At the end of this line, the products are placed into wooden crates (containers), which takes no additional time. One crate can fit One product B. The arrival time of Product B is NegExp(150). Same restriction as Product A, only 4 products can be waiting until the line overflows/shuts down. Next to that, there should always be enough crates in storage at the end of the line to pack the Products, but is restricted to a max of 10 crates. These crates come from the crate-storage. This storage holds more then enough crates. Each forklift can only transport 1 crate a time. Same as with Product A, the pick and the place with the forklift takes 10 seconds.
From the storage-area the products area loaded into trucks. This storage-area has unlimited space. Each truck can carry 50 boxes of Product A OR 30 crates of Product B, mixing the products is not allowed. On average 3 trucks arrive per 8 hours. The distance between the storage-area and the trucks is 10 meters en a forklift transports the products to the trucks.
Each forklift has a speed of 20km/h and an acceleration of 6m/s
There is a fixed path between the lines and the storage area, this path is already created in the model.
Now,I have the following problems:
-First, we use the student edition of ED, so I'm limited to a max of 30 atoms (thats why my upload doesn't contain a network controller)
-Second, my forklifts don't travel via the paths but randomly across the model....
-Third, my model so far contains everything untill the storage area. I still have to build the part where the trucks get loaded but I don't know how, because of the 30 atom limit.
Is there anyone here that can give me some advise on how to build this?
As far as I can see, the labels I've put on the models work as they should and the forklift transports them to the correct destination (Product A directly to storage-area, crates to assembler, assebled product B to storage-area).
Kind regards,
Mitch