GBG Link Identical/Redundant Systems

I’m brand new to GBG and most schedulers, and I am only simulating a potential build at the moment to sketch out my assays.

Is there a way to link/mark similar instruments? For example, I have 2+ Bioshakes. I currently have to designate which shaker each labware should use in a given incubation step. If I want to run multiple iterations, each plate waits for the first shaker to be free even though there are several not in use.

How do I program my workflow so that any available shaker is available for use?

I think I can use conditionals to check for device availability and use the next available, but I am curious if there is a command that would simplify that action.

you can create an “instrument pool” for the shakers

this gives the scheduler the ability to change the chosen resource based on availability

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Yeap, GBG makes this simple with the instrument pool task.