Tutorial Exercise 3.1

Exercise Information

A train needs to fill up at a fuel station. The train can hold a maximum of 150L of fuel, it is currently holding 10L and using 5L/Km and the fuel station is full with 100L. After that, the train needs to couple a wagon, go to a crane that will load a flow item, which is in a 7x4 queue and is 4x3 in size, onto the train and travel to another crane and finally unload the flow item into a 7x4 queue.

Note: Place 1 unit per flow item at the fuel station.

Step 1 Creating objects

In order to achieve the solution for the problem, you should create the following objects:

  • Create 8 Rails.
  • Create a RailControlPoint and put on the middle of Rail1.
  • Create a Fuel Station and connect (using S key) to the RailControlPoint on Rail1.
  • On fuel station, Max and Start Weight to 100. Unit per item: 1.
  • Create a SourceTrain.
  • Connect the SourceTrain (using A key) to Rail2.
  • Create a RailControlPoint and put on middle of Rail3.
  • Create a RailControlPoint and put on middle of Rail4.
  • Create a RailControlPoint and put on middle of Rail7.
  • Create a RailCrane above Rail4.
  • Create a Queue under the RailCrane.
  • Change the xsize of the Queue to 7 and ysize to 4.
  • On Queue, set the "On Entry" trigger with Visual > Set Location, Rotation or Size. The values are: For "Set" enter Size, "Object" enter Item, "X Size" enter 4, "Y Size" enter 2 and "Z Size" enter 1.
  • Create a RailCrane above Rail7.
  • Create a Queue 7x4 under the new RailCrane.
  • Create a Sink near Rail1.

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Your model should be looking like this:

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Step 2 Processflow Configuration

In order to achieve the solution for the problem, you should create the following processflow tasks:

  • Create a Schedule Source.
  • Create a "CreateTrain" activity.
  • Create a "CreateWagon" activity.
  • Create a "Create Object" activity.
  • Create a "MoveTrain" activity.
  • Create a "FuelTrain" activity.
  • Create a "MoveTrain" activity.
  • Create a "CoupleWagon" activity.
  • Create a "MoveTrain" activity.
  • Create a "CraneLoad" activity.
  • Create a "MoveTrain" activity.
  • Create a "CraneUnload" activity.
  • Create a "MoveTrain" activity.
  • Create a "DestroyTrain" activity.
  • Create a Sink.

Your processflow should be looking like this:

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To configure your processflow tasks follow the steps:

  • Create a Schedule Source.
  • On "CreateTrain" activity, point the "SourceTrain" reference to your Source Train object. Set "Max Fuel" and "Current Fuel" to 150 and the "Fuel Usage" to 5.
  • On "CreateWagon" activity, point the "Control Point" reference to the RailControlPoint on Rail3 and set wagons quantity to 1.
  • On "Create Object" activity, check "Create In" and reference to the Queue1.
  • On "MoveTrain" activity, set train reference to "token.train" and destiny to the RailControlPoint on Rail1.
  • On "FuelTrain" activity, point the "Control Point" reference to the RailControlPoint on Rail1.
  • On the second "MoveTrain" activity, set train reference to "token.train" and destiny to the label "token.wagon".
  • On "CoupleWagon" activity, set train reference to "token.train" and wagon reference to "token.wagon".
  • On the third "MoveTrain" activity, set train reference to "token.train" and destiny to the RailControlPoint on Rail4.
  • On "CraneLoad" activity, set "Crane" reference to RailCrane1.
  • On the fourth "MoveTrain" activity, set train reference to "token.train" and destiny to the RailControlPoint on Rail6.
  • On "CraneUnload" activity, set "Crane" reference to RailCrane2 and "Destination" reference to Queue2.
  • On the fifth "MoveTrain" activity, set train reference to "token.train" and destiny to Rail1.
  • On "DestroyTrain" activity, set train reference to "token.train" and "Sink" reference to the Sink next to Rail1.

With this configuration your model is ready.