Rockwell Automation Arena Users Guide - Manual (Page 94)

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T YPICAL USES
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A mechanic allocates a forklift for scheduled maintenance
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Allocate a taxi to pick up waiting passengers
P ROMPTS
Prompt Description
Name Unique name of the module that will be displayed in the flowchart.
Transporter Name Name of the transporter to allocate.
Selection Rule Rule for determining which of the transporters to allocate to the entity.
The selection rule has the following options: Cyclical, Random,
Preferred Order, Specific Member, Largest Distance, and Smallest
Distance.
Save Attribute The attribute name that will store the unit number of the selected
transporter.
Unit Number Determines the specific transporter in the transporter set to allocate to
the entity. It is only visible if selection rule is Specific Member.
Priority Priority value of the entity waiting at this module for the transporter
specified if one or more entities are waiting for the same transporter
anywhere in the model.
Entity Location This field is used to determine the transporter closest to or farthest from
the requesting entity when using the Largest Distance or Smallest
Distance transporter selection rules. For free-path transporters, the entity
location must be specified as a station. For guided transporters, the
entity location may be specified as a station, intersection, or network
link.
Queue Type Type of queue used to hold the entities while waiting to allocate the
transporter, either an individual Queue, a queue Set, an Internal queue,
or an Attribute or Expression that evaluate to the queue name.
Queue Name Name of the individual queue.
Queue Set Name Name of the queue set that contains the queue being referenced.
Set Index The index into the queue set. Note that this is the index into the set and
not the name of the queue in the set. For example, the only valid entries
for a queue set containing three members is an expression that evaluates
to 1, 2, or 3.
Attribute Name The attribute name that will be evaluated to the queue name.
Expression The expression that will be evaluated to the queue name.