I’m trying to configure a layout using PM Flow and I was hoping someone could help me with a problem I’m facing.
The layout consists of a Robot connected to a Robot Transport Controller, and I would like the robot to go to it’s home position ONLY if there are no tasks. I know the possibility of using autohoming, however this unfortunately does not work for this application.
Wondering, is there a possibility to get to know if the tasks in a controller’s task container is empty?
This way I can use it as an if statement in a process node.
If container == empty
Runrobotroutine "home’
Or does anyone know of any other solution using it as a function in a process node?
Hi,
I’m not sure to understand why AutoHoming doesn’t work in your case, as it drives the robot in its Home position when the robot is Idle (= has no tasks) after a delay… Could increasing this Delay solve your problem?
Otherwise, I suppose you could indeed try to use a ProcessNode to check with GetProperties or with signals, if there are Products in your other processes for example, and if not, do a RunRobotRoutine…
It’s difficult to explain because I can’t share the layout, but I sort-off needed there to be two different home-positions which is why the autohoming didn’t solve the problem.
But I got it to work in the meantime by using signals, thank you for the suggestions!