CARGO WAREHOUSING CONTROL DEVICE IN AUTOMATIC WAREHOUSE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce processing load applied to a stock management computer to improve a processing speed by allowing a cargo warehousing-conveyor controller to a part of data management to be performed by the stock management computer. ;SOLUTION: In an automatic warehouse, cargo warehousing requiring data on cargo supplied by a cargo warehousing-conveyor 7 are read by a bar code reader 14, and based on the cargo warehousing requiring data, work instruction data are prepared by a stock management computer 15. Next, based on the work instruction data, drive instruction data are prepared by a cargo warehousing-conveyor controller 16, and based on the drive instruction data, the cargo warehousing-conveyor 7 is controlled by a cargo warehousing-conveyor controller 17. Further, the cargo warehousing-conveyor controller 16 performs monitoring of a following cargo waiting time by means of timers, and outputs either of a plural cargo warehousing requiring signal or a single cargo warehousing requiring signal to the stock management computer 15, depending on the state in which the following cargo are supplied.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO