CONVEYANCE SYSTEM CONTROL DEVICE AND CONVEYANCE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD

• Main Authors: MAKIHARA YOSHITO, ITO KAZUAKI, YAMADA TAKAYOSHI, SATO ATSUYA, ICHIKI KENGO, YAMAMOTO HIDEHIKO, IZAWA HITOSHI, UEKADO TAKETO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 24.09.2020
• Subjects: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; CONVEYING; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; REGULATING; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

To prevent stop of a manufacturing line.SOLUTION: A conveyance system control device comprises an acquisition unit, an estimation unit, and an instruction unit. The acquisition unit acquires production line information about a production line in which a complete product is manufactured in cooperation with a plurality of manufacturing apparatuses. Based on the manufacturing line information acquired by the acquisition unit, the estimation unit estimates whether components for the complete product that are equal to or larger in number than a threshold are accumulated in the manufacturing apparatuses and the components do not become deficient in number in a case where an instruction given to a conveyance device for conveying articles in the manufacturing line is caused to execute. In a case where the estimation unit estimates that the components equal to or larger in number than the threshold are not accumulated and also estimates that the components do not become deficient in number, the instruction unit causes the conveyance device to execute the instruction.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 【課題】製造ラインの停止を防止する。【解決手段】搬送システム制御装置は、取得部と、予測部と、指示部とを備える。取得部は、複数の製造装置が協働して一の完成品を製造する製造ラインに関する製造ライン情報を取得する。予測部は、前記取得部が取得した前記製造ライン情報に基づいて、前記製造ラインで物品を搬送する搬送装置に対する指示を実行させた場合に前記製造装置に前記完成品の部品が閾値以上溜められ、且つ前記部品が不足することはないかを予測する。指示部は、前記予測部が閾値以上の前記部品が溜められることはないと予測し、且つ前記部品が不足することはないと予測した場合に、前記搬送装置に前記指示を実行させる。【選択図】図６