Getting Started

5 • THE ADVANCED TRANSFER PANEL
TYPICAL USES
• A forklift transports a pallet of parts to the next processing station
• A mail cart transports packages from the mailroom to the order-processing station
PROMPTS
Prompt
Description
Name
Transporter Name
Unit Number
Unique name of the module that will be displayed in the
flowchart.
Name of the transporter to move. If blank, the most recently
requested or allocated transporter is assumed.
Determines which of the transporter units in the transporter set to
transport.
Entity Destination Type Determines the method for specifying the entity destination
station logic. Selection of By Sequence requires that the entity
has been assigned a sequence name and that the sequence itself
has been defined.
Station Name
Attribute Name
Expression
Velocity
Units
Guided Tran
Destination Type
Station Name
Attribute Name
Name of the individual station.
Name of the attribute that stores the station name to which
entities will route.
Expression that is evaluated to the station where entities will
route.
Specifies the temporary velocity at which the entity and
transporter are moved to the destination station.
Velocity time units.
Allows the specification of a guided transporter destination that
is different from the entity’s destination. This field is ignored if
Transporter Name is a free-path transporter.
Defines the name of the station with an associated intersection to
which the guided transporter will move.
Defines the name of the attribute that stores the station name
with an associated intersection to which the guided transporter
will move.
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