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Managing Forklift Handover Between Shifts

I am working with a model that has two shifts, and the number of forklifts available in each shift is different.

I initially set up the forklifts using the Delete/Add option in the parameter table for each shift. This works fine, but my main issue is that forklifts from the first shift need to hand over to the second shift, and currently. I have seen some post doing double connect (A) to dispatcher but this approach didn't work for me

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I was considering using a single set of forklifts and managing their availability through downtime in a timetable. However, the challenge with this approach is that the number of forklifts needed per shift is not the same, so I am not sure how to manage that effectively. is there an easy way since i will not have to do hand over just changing number of forklifts between shifts?

Is there a way to handle this forklift handover while maintaining different numbers of forklifts for each shift? Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! here is model loading_1.fsm @Felix Möhlmann do you have any suggestion about this problem. Thank you!

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I would suggest to do what would likely happen in reality as well: Let them finish their current task before they stop working.

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Thank you @Felix Möhlmann that's works only problem is when shift change I will have a lot of forklift in the warehouse since a lot of forklift are still picking so I will have twice the number of forklift which is not the case. do you have any solution to this problem? loading_1.fsm

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Maybe just end one shift a bit earlier and/or start the next one later, so there's a time window where technically no forklifts are active and the current shift has time to clear out.
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@Felix Möhlmann I will try this option as I have some picks that takes hours. just a follow up i notice the forklift for 2 shift is being acquired which it shouldn't be since these are for 2 shift. normally it should aqcuire only available shift 1 forklifts. do you have any suggestion for this one?

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