Material control system

• Main Author: IM KWANG-YOUNG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.08.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CONVEYING; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; NAVIGATION; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; SIGNALLING; STORING; SURVEYING; TESTING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

A material control system (MCS) to select an optimum transport route by calculating a prospective transport time between a source node and a destination node includes a transport order manager to receive and manage layout information, and real-time job information of a load and a waiting job number...