I am working on a scenario where I would want to emulate chip bins getting full based on time distributions. Once filled, AMRs would pick the bin and empty the bin in an empty bin zone and then place the empty bin on to a bin buffer. I used process nodes for the bin process, dump zone and buffer zone. And I set up signals between the bin process node and the buffer zone basically - based on a time delay, the signal gets sent to the buffer zone - which will initiate the AMR to pick a bin and loop it to the dump zone and back to the buffer. However I am having an issue where only one bin gets transported at a time. I want to scale this process to have multiple parallel machines - so multiple AMRs should work in tandem to pick full bins from the machine and another AMR should replenish this with a bin from the buffer. Is there any way I can have something like a capacity pull emulated so that multiple AMRs work in tandem? Any help would be highly appreciated
Hello, I’m not sure I understand correctly, but if you want the AMR to go fetch a new product, before the actual product is finished and has to be transported to the next process, then you could either have 2 processes in front of the machine, like a buffer, or you could try using the StartTransportIn+WaitTransport method, similar to the “Dual Gripper Machine Tending “ Layout Template in the eCat.
From the Help file:
A StartTransportIn statement allows you to start transporting one or more products instances into the process and to execute other statements while that is being done.
Thank you Tilma, also we will be using an AMR with omni capabilities. Is there a way we can control the navigation of the AMR so that in a certain pathway - it moves sideways instead of straight?
@rprasann At present, VC corresponds to the MR module, without the AMR module, so using MR to implement AMR functionality may not be possible or difficult!
