Hope this helps
Hi Evan,
MSGSapper's excellent SAP BI3 multiple industries are what I use most for my supply chain and the paper one is a good example. I have made my own custom version of some, with paper being one as I wanted the change the input wood products to fit the UK log wagons but that is another matter and shows how much potential there is with these highly customisable industries but it took me a while to get my head round how to set them up. I will use the
default SAP BI3 paper for this guide.
IMPORTANT: please ensure you have the latest version of the BI3 industry track from the DLS before investing time in configuring this as an obsolete version may not behave as expected.
First of all, in Surveyor 2.0 click on the SAP BI3 industry track, zoom in and there should be a small red and white ruler you can click and then there should be a small factory icon which means it is an interactive industry.
So looking at this, it has four tabs at the top, Queues, Tracks, Processes and Products.
Queues should already be set up, with one product in each queue. If you click on the product's thumbnail icon you can set the starting amount but in this case, the defaults are fine, there is a little bit of each product to start with.
Next up, the
Tracks tab, which needs to be set up.
As these industries do everything (loading and unloading) on the same track then you need to add every product that is listed under Queues.
Click on the + sign and select the first product. It doesn't matter what order you add them. Once they are all added then you need to click on the thumbnail icon for each product and choose whether to
Load into Vehicle or
Unload from Vehicle, so
outputs such as the Newsprint Paper Roll need to
load and
inputs such as the chemicals and pulpwood need to set to
unload. If you click on the underlined text it will toggle between each option. You also need to click on the Queue number below the loading mode and set the correct queue but this should automatically suggest only one queue so select that.
I will come back to the
Processes tab, as the product types need to be set up first.
Under the
Products tab, click on each thumbnail icon like you did under the tracks tab. If you want to set a specific item of rolling stock then this will help in estimating the quantity but I usually leave it blank as you can use any railcar that can carry that product. The important thing is the
Load size, click the underlined text and it will toggle between
Tonnes,
Litres/Gallons or
Units:
- Tonnes are for bulk items such as coal or grain, carried in hopper or other open wagons.
- Litres/Gallons are for liquids such as oil or the chemicals used by the chemicals used by this paper industry, obviously carried in tank wagons.
- Units are for items, so a pallet or a roll of paper or a container, but it is easy to get confused with things like the pulpwood that is measured in unit loads rather than tonnes so a wagon load of wood = one unit. In terms of configuring Trainz rolling stock, a good test is can it be divided into say half a wagon of wood? You can't have half a roll of paper or half a pallet and while half a traincar of pulpwood is possible in the real world, a unit is a unit in Trainz! These are carried in boxcars/flatbeds or other specialised rolling stock.
I will continue this thread later and cover
- Setting up the Process tab
- Setting up railcars for delivering the pulpwood and taking out pallets and rolls of paper.
- Putting it all together and the bigger picture - a paper mill needs more than just pulpwood so where do the other inputs come from?
I hope this helps!
Kind regards,
Gary