How to do this

Deal all,

I have a type of vehicle which are only 1-TEU capacity. But if i want to transfer a 35, 40 or 45, I need to ask two vehicles to join and do the operation. That is i must manage to do the following:

1. the QC or YC firt has to know that the delivering container is a 1-TEU or larger. if larger it must not allow one single vehicle to take it rather it must ensure taht two vehicles have arrived to the collection point and coupled.

2. for any contaienr of >1-TEU the first two vehicle must be combined and later on move in a platoon of 2-vehicle

3. where the dischaging takes place the AC or YC must be able to admit two vehicle at the same time not only one because they are a 2-vehicle platoon delivering the container

4. after delivering the container, they "perhaps" need to be disjoined as the next job might be a 1-TEU task.


has anybody a clue how to model this in CT?

Any comment is appreciated.
regards,

any comment?

any support?

Hi,

There aren't that many CT licenses sold compared to standard Flexsim, so it sometimes takes longer for somebody to answer. Why don't you ask the question also to the party that sold you the software. They should be able to answer you as well.

Thank you for your message.
Well, either you are proxying the company (which I can hardly remember communicating with you before) and talking on behalf of it in this case I should expect you to support the software (without further discussions) or you are probably not proxying the company and one of us does not understand the function of this forum. I am not keeping track of the number of CT lincences being sold by Flexsim and this is an internal matter.


regards,

He, I just tried to be nice and explain to you why it might take a little longer to get an answer. And no you didn't buy the software from us because in that case we would have given you support.

If you have a maintenance contract you are entitled to support and you can invoke that right from your distributor or from Flexsim direct but that right doesn't include forum answers within a certain amount of time.

This forum, is for and from the users which means that all the answer given here are done by people that usually have other things to do but instead choose to spend there precious time helping other people.

Yeah, actually seems too much being nice!
well, I dont see any "certain amount of time" being discussed here.
By the way, from the last sentences I noticed which one of us does not understand the funtion of this forum.
There have been nice people at "Flexsim Development" who were kindly responding the cases. You can talk to them to stop that if that is bothering you.

Shahin,

You can model any given simulation problem in a multitude of ways, especially with the flexibility of Flexsim.

This forum is a place where Flexsim users can ask questions and share ideas with each other. Developers and distributors are included among the large group of Flexsim users. Sometimes we answer questions, as Steven indicated.

Apparently this question is such that no one has thought of a simple idea for how to model it in CT yet. Hence why no one responded to your question.

Personally, I have never heard of a terminal that operates in the way you describe. None of the terminal operators that were involved with the specifications for how CT was designed had transports that behave the way you describe. That is why CT doesn't easily do what you are trying to do.

Perhaps CT does what you are trying to do, but you have described it in a manner that people don't understand what you are trying to say. For example, you never described what YC, QC, or AC mean. I presume you may be talking about a Quay Crane and a Yard Crane (gantry crane), but I may be wrong (I have no idea what AC is, unless you are talking about air conditioning or alternating current). Other people may not have any idea what you are talking about.

Because none of the Forum users seem to understand your question enough to give you an answer, Steven has kindly suggested that you seek direct support from whoever sold you the software. Flexsim has many distributors around the world that sell the software in addition to the core company that sells the software in the United States. Steven sells to people in and near the Netherlands. Other distributors sell software in their regions of the world.

Whoever sold you the software should have also sold you a maintenance agreement that includes support. You should contact your distributor if you need direct support to develop your model, which it sounds like you do. Each distributor supports their clients in their part of the world.

Thank you for your message.
Thank you for the explanation. Apprently the information I am receiving from you does not coincide with that I received previously from the local distributor.

Even for a simple communication (even not support) sometime I wait for several days.
In fcta our distributor told us that if we ask our questions through him he has higher priority to get response from the US office.
My exerience was that I am getting the answers much quicker when I raise the question in forum.

anyway, I understnd that none of the terminals work this way so far, but actually that is the whole idea of our EU project that we have designed a new class of transporters which operate in this cooperative form and are supposed to be deployed on a few small ports in North-West Europe such as Dublin, Liverpool, Lehavre etc.

The capacity of such Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (as opposed to AGVs) is 1-TEU and are addressing the operation in confined area.