JP2013052960A - Article transporting facility - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an article transporting facility which can realize an improvement in transportation efficiency of the articles by determining a transporting path on which articles are concentrated.SOLUTION: For each of a plurality of transporting paths corresponding to combinations of a plurality of transportation starting points and a plurality of transportation destinations, the number of transportation times when the articles are transported is counted and memorized, and on the basis of the memorized information, a display section is made to display information showing the number of times of transportation for each of the plurality of transporting paths.

Description

  The present invention includes an article transport unit that transports an article between a plurality of transport sources and a plurality of transport destinations, and a management unit that manages transport command information that specifies the transport destination for an article located at the transport source. Further, the present invention relates to an article conveyance facility provided with a conveyance control means for controlling the operation of the article conveyance means based on the conveyance command information from the management means.

In such an article conveyance facility, the conveyance control means controls the operation of the article conveyance means based on the conveyance command information from the management means, and the article conveyance means conveys a plurality of articles located at any of a plurality of conveyance sources. It is transported to any one of the above.
In such an article conveying facility, conventionally, the article conveying device is configured to count the number of times the article has been conveyed by the article conveying unit and display information indicating the number of conveying times on the display unit. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).
Incidentally, in the above-described conventional article transport facility, the number of times of transport is displayed on the display means, so that an operator can easily determine the maintenance time of the article transport means.

JP-A-4-243704

When an article is transported between a plurality of transport sources and a plurality of transport destinations by an article transport means, there are a plurality of transport paths depending on the combination from the transport source to the transport destination, but part of the plurality of transport paths In some cases, the transportation of articles is concentrated. In addition, since the conveyance of articles concentrates on some of the conveyance paths in this way, the processing on the articles such as supply of articles to the conveyance source and delivery of articles from the conveyance destination in the concentrated conveyance paths cannot catch up. In some cases, a waiting time may be generated when an article is received from the transfer source, and a waiting time may be generated when the article is delivered to the transfer destination, so that the efficiency of transferring the article by the article transfer means is deteriorated. Therefore, it is conceivable to improve the conveyance efficiency of articles by appropriately distributing the conveyance of articles to other conveyance paths so that the conveyance of articles does not concentrate on some conveyance paths.
However, in the above-described conventional article transport facility, what is displayed on the display means is the number of times the entire article transport facility is transported, and the operator concentrates the transport of articles from the contents displayed on the display means. The conveyance path could not be determined, and the article conveyance efficiency could not be improved.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an article transport facility capable of determining the transport path where articles are concentrated and improving the transport efficiency of the articles. is there.

The article conveyance facility according to the present invention includes article conveyance means for conveying an article between a plurality of conveyance sources and a plurality of conveyance destinations, and conveyance command information for designating the conveyance destination for an article located at the conveyance source. Management means for managing, and a transport control means for controlling the operation of the article transport means based on the transport command information from the management means, the first characteristic configuration,
For each of a plurality of conveyance paths corresponding to a combination of the plurality of conveyance sources and the plurality of conveyance destinations, a conveyance number counting unit that counts and stores the number of conveyance times the article has been conveyed;
Display control means is provided for causing the display means to display information indicating the number of times of conveyance for each of the plurality of conveyance paths based on information stored in the conveyance number counting means.

That is, on the display means, based on the information stored in the conveyance number coefficient means, for example, a list of information indicating the number of conveyances for each of the plurality of conveyance paths is displayed. Information indicating the number of times is displayed. For this reason, the worker can use a transport source or a transport in which the transport of articles is concentrated from information indicating the number of transports displayed on the display unit for a transport route corresponding to a combination of a plurality of transport sources and a plurality of transport destinations. The destination can be determined.
Therefore, for example, by determining the transport source and transport destination where the articles are concentrated, the transport path where the transport is concentrated is prevented so that the transport of the articles does not concentrate at some transport sources and transport destinations. By changing to another transport path in which the paper is not concentrated, it is possible to appropriately disperse the transport of the articles to other transport paths and improve the transport efficiency of the articles.
In this way, it is possible to improve the conveyance efficiency of the article by determining the conveyance source and the conveyance destination where the conveyance of the article is concentrated from the information indicating the number of conveyance times displayed on the display means and taking an appropriate response. It has come to be able to provide an article transportation facility that can.

  A second feature configuration of the article transport facility according to the present invention is the first feature configuration, wherein a plurality of transport source conveyors having a transport downstream end set as the transport source are provided, and a transport upstream end is the transport A plurality of transport destination conveyors set in advance are provided, and the article transporting means is between a transport downstream end of the transport conveyors and a transport upstream end of the transport conveyors. It is in the point comprised by the goods conveyance trolley which conveys articles | goods.

  That is, when an article is conveyed to the conveyance downstream end by any one of the plurality of conveyance source conveyors, the article located at the conveyance downstream end is transferred to the plurality of conveyance destination conveyors by the article conveyance carriage. It is comprised so that it may convey to either conveyance upstream edge part. That is, an article is conveyed by a plurality of conveying devices including a conveying source conveyor, an article conveying cart, and a conveying destination conveyor.

  And the information which shows the frequency | count of conveyance about each of the several conveyance path | route in the goods conveyance trolley | bogie which is one of several goods apparatus is displayed on the display means. Therefore, the operator can determine the conveyance source and the conveyance destination where the conveyance of the articles is concentrated in the conveyance of the articles on the article conveyance carriage from the contents displayed on the display means. The conveyance efficiency can be improved.

  According to a third feature configuration of the article transport facility according to the present invention, in the first or second feature configuration, the display control unit displays information indicating one of the plurality of transport sources and the plurality of transport destinations in a row direction. A row and a column in which information indicating the other and the information indicating the plurality of transport destinations are displayed on the display means in a state where the information indicating the other is displayed in the column direction. The information indicating the number of times of conveyance for each of the plurality of conveyance paths is displayed on the display means at the intersection with the display unit.

That is, information indicating the number of times of conveyance for the conveyance path corresponding to the combination of the conveyance source and the conveyance destination is present at the intersection of the row and the column where the information indicating the conveyance source and the information indicating the conveyance destination are displayed. It is displayed. In addition, information indicating the number of times of transport for a plurality of transport routes having the same transport source is displayed in the same column or row, and similarly, information indicating the number of times of transport for a plurality of transport routes having the same transport destination is the same row or column. Is displayed.
Therefore, it is possible to display a list of a plurality of conveyance paths corresponding to combinations of a plurality of conveyance sources and a plurality of conveyance destinations in a row direction and a column direction, and the number of conveyance times for a plurality of conveyance paths with the same conveyance source. Is displayed in the same column or row, and information indicating the number of times of conveyance for a plurality of conveyance routes with the same conveyance destination is displayed in the same row or column, so that the conveyance routes for each of the plurality of conveyance routes Is easy to recognize.

  According to a fourth feature configuration of the article transport facility according to the present invention, in any one of the first to third feature configurations, the display control unit includes a plurality of sections in which the number of times of transport is divided into a plurality of stages. From the division display information determined so as to have different display forms corresponding to each, the division display information corresponding to the number of conveyances stored in the conveyance number counting means is selected, and the selected division The display information is configured to be displayed as information indicating the number of times of conveyance.

  That is, the display means selects and displays the category display information corresponding to the number of times of conveyance as information indicating the number of times of conveyance. Since this division display information is determined so that the number of conveyance times is different in correspondence with each of a plurality of divisions divided into a plurality of stages, the division display information is classified step by step from the displayed division display information. Thus, it is possible to quickly recognize the approximate number of times of conveyance, and it is easy to determine a conveyance route on which articles are concentrated.

  According to a fifth characteristic configuration of the article conveyance facility according to the present invention, in any one of the first to fourth characteristic configurations, the conveyance number counting unit includes the plurality of conveyance paths for each time segment arranged in time series. The number of times of conveyance is counted for each, and is stored in association with the date and time, and when the display target period is designated, the display control means specifies the conveyance route in the designated display target period. It is the point which is comprised so that the information which shows the said conveyance frequency about each may be displayed on the said display means.

  That is, when a predetermined display target period is designated, information indicating the number of times of conveyance in the designated display target period is displayed on the display unit in units of conveyance routes. Therefore, since the number of times of conveyance in the conveyance path unit within the display target period can be recognized from the contents displayed on the display means, the conveyance path of articles is concentrated within the designated display target period. The transport source and transport destination where the transport of articles is concentrated can be determined, and the worker can improve the transport efficiency of the articles in units of a predetermined display target period.

  According to a sixth feature configuration of the article transport facility according to the present invention, in the fifth feature configuration, the display control unit displays information indicating the number of times of transport for each of the transport paths in a designated display target period. And a total display state in which information indicating the total number of times of conveyance obtained by summing the number of times of conveyance of the plurality of conveyance routes for each of the time segments is displayed in a time series. The display state of the display means is configured to be switchable.

  That is, by switching the display state of the display means to the display state by route, information indicating the number of times of transport for each of the transport routes in the designated display target period is displayed collectively on the display means. It is easy to recognize the information shown on the conveyance path for each of the paths. In addition, by switching the display state of the display means to the total display state, information indicating the total number of times of conveyance obtained by summing the number of times of conveyance of a plurality of conveyance paths for each time section is displayed side by side in time series. From the transition of the number of times, it is possible to recognize a time segment where the article is not efficiently conveyed.

  According to a seventh characteristic configuration of the article transport facility according to the present invention, in the sixth characteristic configuration, the display control unit switches to the display state by route when the display target period is designated in the total display state. It is in the point which is comprised.

  That is, a display target period in which the article is not efficiently conveyed by judging the time segment where the article is not efficiently conveyed from the transition of the total number of conveyance times displayed in the total route display state. By specifying, the number of times of conveyance can be displayed in units of the conveyance path in the display target period, so it is possible to determine the conveyance route where the conveyance of articles is concentrated in the time segment when the articles are not efficiently conveyed. Easy to do.

Top view of goods storage equipment Control block diagram Diagram showing total display status Diagram showing the display status by route Conveyance diagram of goods

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, the article transport facility includes an automatic warehouse 1 for storing articles, a carry-in conveyor 2 for carrying articles carried in from the outside, a carry-out conveyor 3 for carrying articles carried out to the outside, and An article transport cart 4 is provided as an article transport means for transporting articles between the automatic warehouse 1, the carry-in conveyor 2, and the carry-out conveyor 3 while traveling on the floor surface.

  In the automatic warehouse 1, an article storage shelf 7 having a plurality of storage units 6 for storing articles vertically and horizontally, a warehousing conveyor 8 for transporting articles received in the automatic warehouse 1, and articles delivered from the automatic warehouse 1 are stored. There are provided a delivery conveyor 9 for transporting, and a stacker crane 10 that travels on the floor surface and transports articles among the article storage shelves 7, the storage conveyor 8, and the delivery conveyor 9.

  As described above, in the article conveying facility provided with a plurality of conveying devices such as the carrying-in conveyor 2, the carrying-out conveyor 3, the article conveying cart 4, the warehousing conveyor 8, the shed conveyor 9, and the stacker crane 10, as follows. The article is conveyed. In addition, in FIG. 1, the conveyance direction in each conveyor is shown by the arrow.

  That is, in the case where the articles carried in from the outside are stored in the storage section 6 of the article storage shelf 7, the articles carried in from the outside are placed on the transport upstream side end a of the carrying-in conveyor 2, and the placed articles Is transported to the transport downstream end b by the carry-in conveyor 2. Then, the article located at the conveyance downstream end b of the carry-in conveyor 2 is placed on the article conveyance carriage 4 and the loaded article is wholesaled to the conveyance upstream end a of the warehousing conveyor 8 in the automatic warehouse 1. The articles are conveyed to the automatic warehouse 1 by being conveyed by the article conveying cart 4.

The articles conveyed to the automatic warehouse 1 are conveyed to the conveyance downstream end b by the warehousing conveyor 8. Then, the article located at the transport downstream end b of the carry-in conveyor 2 is scraped by the stacker crane 10, and the scraped article is transported by the stacker crane 10 so as to be wholesaled in the storage section 6 of the article storage shelf 7. Thus, the article is stored in the storage unit 6.
Thus, in the case of storing the articles carried in from the outside in the storage unit 6 of the article storage shelf 7,
Articles are sequentially delivered and conveyed in the order of the carry-in conveyor 2, the article transport carriage 4, the warehousing conveyor 8, and the stacker crane 10.

  Further, when the articles taken out from the storage section 6 of the article storage shelf 7 are carried out to the outside, the articles are taken out from the storage section 6 and are transported by the stacker crane 10 so as to be shipped to the upstream end a of the transport conveyor 9. Then, it is transported to the transport downstream end b by the unloading conveyor 9. Then, an article located at the conveyance downstream end b of the delivery conveyor 9 is placed on the article conveyance carriage 4 so that the article is conveyed from the automatic warehouse 1.

The articles conveyed from the automatic warehouse 1 are conveyed by the article conveying carriage 4 so as to be wholesaled to the conveyance upstream end a of the carry-out conveyor 3, and the wholesaled articles are conveyed downstream by the carry-out conveyor 3. After being transported to the side end b, it is transported to the outside.
As described above, when the article taken out from the storage unit 6 is carried out to the outside, the article is sequentially delivered and conveyed in the order of the stacker crane 10, the delivery conveyor 9, the article transport cart 4, and the carry-out conveyor 3. Yes.

  Further, in addition to the case where the articles carried in from the outside are stored in the storage section 6 of the article storage shelf 7 and the case where the articles taken out from the storage section 6 of the article storage shelf 7 are carried out to the outside, the carry-in conveyor 2 When the articles are transported so as to be sequentially delivered in the order of the article transport cart 4 and the carry-out conveyor 3 and the articles carried in from the outside are carried out without being stored in the storage section 6, the stacker crane 10, Conveyor 9, article transport cart 4, warehousing conveyor 8, stacker crane 10 are sequentially conveyed so as to be delivered, and the article taken out from storage unit 6 is stored in storage unit 6 of another automatic warehouse 1. There is a case.

[Conveyance by goods transportation cart]
The article transporting carriage 4 uses the transport downstream end b of the plurality of carry-in conveyors 2 and the transport downstream end b of the plurality of unloading conveyors 9 as a transport source F, and transports the plurality of carry-out conveyors 3. Either the upstream end a or the transport upstream end a of the plurality of warehousing conveyors 8 is set as a transport destination T, and the article is transported from the transport source F to the transport destination T.
That is, when the articles carried in from the outside are stored in the storage section 6 of the article storage shelf 7, the article transport cart 4 uses the transport downstream end b of any of the plurality of transport conveyors 2 as the transport source F. The transport upstream end a of any of the plurality of warehousing conveyors 8 is a transport destination T, and the article is transported from the transport source F to the transport destination T.
Moreover, when carrying out the article taken out from the storage unit 6 of the article storage shelf 7 to the outside, the article transport cart 4 uses the transport downstream side end b of any of the plurality of unloading conveyors 9 as the transport source F, The transport upstream end a of any of the plurality of carry-out conveyors 3 is used as the transport destination T, and the article is transported from the transport source F to the transport destination T.

  The plurality of carry-in conveyors 2 and the plurality of unloading conveyors 9 correspond to transfer-source conveyors whose transfer downstream end b is set as the transfer-source F of the article transfer carriage 4, and the plurality of carry-out conveyors 3 and The warehousing conveyor 8 corresponds to a transport destination conveyor in which the transport upstream end a is set as the transport destination T of the article transport cart 4, and the article transport cart 4 includes a plurality of transport source conveyors. The article is configured to be conveyed between the conveyance downstream end b (conveyance source F) and the conveyance upstream end a (conveyance destination T) of the plurality of conveyance destination conveyors.

[Control of goods transport equipment]
As shown in FIG. 2, the article transport facility manages article storage information that is information on articles stored in the automatic warehouse 1, and the articles carried into the article transport facility and the articles carried out from the article transport facility. Management means S for managing the conveyance command information of the machine, and a work command for transmitting the article carry-in command information and the article carry-out command information to the management means S based on a carry-in request and a carry-out request input at an operation terminal (not shown) There is provided an apparatus ER, a control means C for controlling the operation of the conveying equipment based on the conveyance command information from the management means S, and a monitoring apparatus CD for displaying the state of the article conveying facility in response to the operator's request. Yes.

  The management means S transmits work command information based on the work management device MS as a work management unit that creates transport command information based on the carry-in command information and the carry-out command information from the work command device ER. A transport management device CS as a transport management unit that selects the control means C and transmits transport command information to the control means C to be transmitted is configured.

  As the control means C, a crane control device RC for controlling the operation of the stacker crane 10 based on the transport command information from the transport management device CS, and the warehousing conveyor 8 and the unloading based on the transport command information from the transport management device CS. A loading / unloading control device WC for controlling the operation of the conveyor 9, a cart control device SC as a transport control means for controlling the operation of the article transport cart 4 based on the transport command information from the transport management device CS, and a transport management device CS And a carry-in / out controller DC for controlling the operations of the carry-in conveyor 2 and the carry-out conveyor 3 on the basis of the conveyance command information. The crane control device RC is provided in the same number as the stacker crane 10, the storage control device WC is provided in the unit of the automatic warehouse 1, and the same number as the automatic warehouse 1 is provided, and the cart control device SC is 1 A stand is provided, and one carry-in / out controller DC is provided.

  The work command device ER, the work management device MS, the conveyance management device CS, the monitoring device CD, the crane control device RC, the loading / unloading control device WC, the cart control device SC, and the loading / unloading control device DC communicate with each other on the communication line L. Is connected to send and receive.

A description will be given of the work management apparatus MS.
When the carry-in command information and the carry-out command information are transmitted from the work command device ER, the work management device MS creates the transport command information with reference to the transmitted command information and article storage information.
Incidentally, the carry-in command information includes information indicating the carry-in conveyor 2 into which the article is carried in and article information (information indicating the packing form, the product name, and the number of products). The carry-out command information includes information indicating the carry-out conveyor 3 for carrying out the article and article information. Further, the conveyance command information includes information indicating a conveyance start location, information indicating a conveyance end location, and article information.

In other words, when the work management device MS receives the carry-in command information from the work command device ER, the work management device MS carries the carry-in conveyor 2 (the upstream end a of the carry-in conveyor 2) on which the article is loaded based on the carry-in command information. The storage unit 6 that stores the articles that are assigned to the start location and refers to the transport command information is allocated to the transport end location to generate the transport command information, and the transport command information is transmitted to the transport management device CS. It is configured.
Further, when the work management device MS receives the carry-out command information from the work command device ER, the work management device MS assigns the storage unit 6 storing the articles to be carried out to the transfer start position, and carries out the carry-out conveyor 3 (the carry-out conveyor). 3 is configured to allocate conveyance downstream end portion b) to a conveyance end location, create conveyance command information, and transmit the conveyance command information to the conveyance management device CS.
If the conveyance start point and the conveyance end point are determined, the conveyance source F and the conveyance destination T of the article conveyance carriage 4 are uniquely determined. Therefore, the conveyance command information is for the article located at the conveyance source F. This corresponds to information designating the transport destination T.

Next, the transport management device CS will be described.
When the conveyance command information is transmitted from the work management device MS, the conveyance management device CS transmits the conveyance command information based on the information indicating the conveyance start location and the information indicating the conveyance end location included in the conveyance command information. The control means C to be selected is selected, and the conveyance command information is transmitted to the selected control means C.

  Explaining with a specific example, for example, the carry-in conveyor 2 located on the leftmost side in FIG. 1 is assigned to the conveyance start location, and the storage section 6 in the article storage shelf 7 located on the rightmost side in FIG. Control of the loading / unloading control device DC, the cart control device SC, the loading / unloading control device WC for controlling the loading conveyor 8 in the automatic warehouse 1 located on the rightmost side, and the operation of the stacker crane 10. The crane control device RC is selected as the control means C that transmits the conveyance command information.

  Further, the transport management device CS stores the time when the transport command information is transmitted from the work management device MS as a transport log in association with the transport command information, and the transport log for each request or set time from the monitoring device CD. Is transmitted to the monitoring device CD.

Next, the monitoring device CD will be described.
The monitoring device CD comprises a computer 12, a monitor 13 as a display means, a keyboard 14 and a mouse 15 as input means, and the monitoring device CD carries a carrier transmitted to the cart control device SC. The same transport command information as the command information is transmitted from the transport management device CS.
The computer 12 uses the article transport cart 4 based on the transport command information from the transport management device CS for each of the transport paths corresponding to all combinations of the transport sources F and transport destinations T. A conveyance number counting means 16 that counts and stores the number of times the article has been conveyed and a display control means 17 that displays information indicating the number of conveyance times for each of the plurality of conveyance paths on the monitor 13 are provided in a program format. ing.
In addition, since the conveyance path is determined by a combination of the conveyance source F and the conveyance destination T, if the conveyance source F and the conveyance destination T are the same, even if the articles are conveyed by different article conveyance carriages 4, the conveyance path is the same. I handle it.

  As shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the conveyance number counting means 16 counts the number of conveyances for each of a plurality of conveyance paths for each time segment arranged in time series based on the conveyance log from the conveyance management device CS. The display control means 17 monitors information indicating the number of times of conveyance for each of the conveyance paths in the designated display target period when the display target period is designated. 13 is displayed.

Then, the display control means 17 displays a route-by-path display state in which information indicating the number of times of conveyance for each of the conveyance paths in the designated display target period is collectively displayed on the monitor 13, and a plurality of conveyances for each of the time segments. The display state of the monitor 13 can be switched to a total display state in which information indicating the total number of times of conveyance along the route is displayed in chronological order.
In FIG. 3, a total display state is displayed in which the display target period is one day and the time division is a time division divided in units of one hour. In FIG. 4, a display state for each route in which the display target period is 1 hour is displayed.

[Total display status]
As shown in FIG. 3, in the total display state, the display control means 17 shows a line graph with the vertical axis shown along the vertical direction of the screen as the number of conveyances and the horizontal axis shown along the horizontal direction of the screen as time. Has been.
A circle is displayed at the intersection between the position corresponding to the time division on the horizontal axis and the position corresponding to the total number of conveyances on the vertical axis. The circles adjacent in the left-right direction of the screen are connected by a straight line.

  When the display target period is one day, “20xx year”, “XX” corresponding to the display target period of the information displayed in the line graph outside the range in which the line glass is displayed. Character strings such as “month” and “ΔΔ day” are displayed. Incidentally, when the display target period is set to January, a character string of the year and month corresponding to the display target period of the information displayed in the line graph is displayed.

[Display status by route]
As shown in FIG. 4, the display control means 17 arranges information indicating one of the plurality of transport sources F and the plurality of transport destinations T in the row direction and information indicating the other in the column direction. The number of times of conveyance for each of the plurality of conveyance routes is displayed at the intersection of the row and the column where the information indicating the plurality of conveyance sources F and the information indicating the plurality of conveyance destinations T are displayed. Information to be displayed is displayed on the monitor 13.
Further, the display control means 17 sends the number of conveyance times to the number-of-times-of-conveyance counting means 16 from the division display information determined so as to have different display forms corresponding to each of the plurality of divisions divided into a plurality of stages. The section display information corresponding to the stored number of times of transport is selected, and the selected section display information is displayed as information indicating the number of times of transport.

For the warehousing conveyor 8 and the shipping conveyor 9, as information indicating the transfer source F or the transfer destination T, the number 90 indicating the automatic warehouse 1 is combined with the numbers 01 to 03 attached for convenience to distinguish a plurality of items. 4 digits are displayed. That is, the same four-digit number is displayed for the warehousing conveyor 8 and the warehousing conveyor 9 provided in the same automatic warehouse 1.
In addition, for the carry-in conveyor 2, as the information indicating the transfer source F, a 4-digit number combining the number 11 indicating the carry-in conveyor 2 and the numbers 01 to 03 given for convenience to distinguish a plurality of items is displayed. doing. For the carry-out conveyor 3, as the information indicating the transfer destination T, a 4-digit number combining the number 12 indicating the carry-out conveyor 3 and the numbers 01 and 02 added for convenience to distinguish a plurality of items is displayed. Is configured to do.
In addition, in FIG. 5, while conveying downstream end b of carrying-in conveyor 2 and unloading conveyor 9, and conveying upstream end a of unloading conveyor 3 and loading conveyor 8, it shows each conveyor. 4 digits are shown.

  And information (9001 to 9003) indicating a plurality of delivery conveyors 9 from the upper side of the screen of the monitor 13 toward the lower side of the screen, information (1101 to 1103) indicating a plurality of carry-in conveyors 2, and a plurality of carry-out conveyors 3 Are displayed in order in the order of information (1201 and 1202) and arranged in the row direction so that all of the information indicating these conveyors fits on one screen. Thus, in addition to the information indicating the plurality of shipping conveyors 9 that are the plurality of transfer sources F and the information indicating the plurality of loading conveyors 2, the information indicating the plurality of shipping conveyors 9 that are not the transfer sources F is lined up. They are displayed on the monitor 13 in a state of being arranged in the direction.

Further, information (9001 to 9003) indicating a plurality of warehousing conveyors 8 from the left side of the screen of the monitor 13 toward the right side of the screen, information (1101 to 1103) indicating a plurality of loading conveyors 2, and a plurality of conveying conveyors 3 The information shown (1201 and 1202) is arranged in order, and the information indicating these conveyors is displayed on the monitor 13 in a state of being arranged in the row direction so as to fit on one screen. Thus, in addition to the information indicating the plurality of warehousing conveyors 8 that are the plurality of transfer destinations T and the information indicating the plurality of unloading conveyors 3, information indicating the plurality of carry-in conveyors 2 that are not the transfer destinations T is performed. They are displayed on the monitor 13 in a state of being arranged in the direction.
In the row direction and the column direction, four-digit numbers indicating the conveyor are arranged in the same order.

The display control means 17 uses a combination of the transport source F and the transport destination T in a cell located at the intersection of the row displaying the information indicating the transport source F and the column displaying the information indicating the transport destination T. Information indicating the number of times of transport for the corresponding transport path is displayed.
Then, the display control means 17 sends the number of conveyance times to the conveyance number counting means 16 from the division display information determined so as to have a different display form corresponding to each of the plurality of divisions divided into a plurality of stages. The section display information corresponding to the stored number of times of transport is selected, and the selected section display information is displayed as information indicating the number of times of transport.

  Incidentally, the cursor indicated by the arrow in FIG. 4 can be moved up and down and left and right on the screen of the monitor 13 by operating the mouse 15. And the location where the cursor is located in FIG. 4 is the intersection of the information (9001) indicating the delivery conveyor 9 and the information (1202) indicating the carry-out conveyor 3, and as shown in FIG. The transport downstream end b of the unloading conveyor 9 of the automatic warehouse 1 located on the leftmost side is the transport source F, and the transport upstream end a of the unloading conveyor 3 located on the rightmost side in the drawing is the transport destination T. As shown, the number of times the article is transported by the article transport cart 4 is indicated.

The classification display information includes white when the number of times of conveyance is 0, blue when the number of times of conveyance is 1 to 5, green when the number of times of conveyance is 6 to 10, and 11 to 15 times of times of conveyance. Is yellow, is orange when the number of conveyance times is 16 to 20, and is red when the number of conveyance times is 21 times or more, so that the square at the intersection is displayed in a color corresponding to the number of conveyance times. It has become.
By the way, at the intersection between the row displaying the information indicating the transport source F and the row indicating the information indicating the unloading conveyor 3 that is not the transport destination T, or the row displaying the information indicating the transport destination T and the transport source F Gray is displayed at the intersection with the line indicating the warehousing conveyor 8 as information indicating that the path does not convey the article.

[Switching display status]
In the total transport state, when the mouse 15 is right-clicked with the cursor positioned on the circle, the character strings “Separate display” and “Display by transport route” are displayed. When the mouse 15 is right-clicked (hereinafter referred to as selection) with the cursor positioned on the character string “Separate display”, the total display state of the classification at the time corresponding to the circle where the cursor is located is displayed. Is displayed. In addition, when a character string “route display by route” is selected, a display state by route for a time corresponding to the circle where the cursor is located is displayed.

In the route-specific display state, when the mouse 15 is right-clicked while the cursor is positioned at a crossing cell corresponding to the conveyance route, the character string “number of conveyances”, the number of conveyances of the conveyance route, and the “average conveyance” A character string “time” and an average time of the conveyance time required to convey the article on the conveyance route are displayed.
In the total display state and the route-specific display state, by selecting the character string of the month and day, the total display state or the route-specific display state of the selected month and day is displayed.

  Information indicating the number of times of conveyance for each of a plurality of conveyance paths is displayed on the monitor 13 in the display state by path. Therefore, the worker conveys the article by the article carrying carriage 4 from the information indicating the number of times of conveyance displayed on the monitor 13 for the conveyance paths corresponding to all combinations of the plurality of conveyance sources F and the plurality of conveyance destinations T. It is possible to discriminate the transport source F and the transport destination T where the concentration is concentrated.

[Another embodiment]
(1) In the above-described embodiment, a plurality of transfer source conveyors whose transfer downstream end b is set as the transfer source F are provided, and a plurality of transfer destination conveyors whose transfer upstream end a is set as the transfer destination T are provided. Although provided, a plurality of transport source support bases where the place where the article is placed and supported is set as the transport source F are provided, and a plurality of transport destination support bases where the place where the article is placed and supported is set as the transport destination T It may be provided.
Further, although the article transport carriage 4 is provided as the article transport means, the stacker crane 10 may be provided as the article transport means. In addition, although one transport device is provided as the article transport means, for example, the transport upstream end a of the carry-in conveyor 2 is the transport source F, and the storage section 6 of the article storage shelf 7 is the transport destination T. A plurality of conveying devices may be provided as the article conveying means, such as providing the carrying-in conveyor 2, the article conveying cart 4, the warehousing conveyor 8 and the stacker crane 10 as the conveying means.

(2) In the above embodiment, different colors corresponding to each of the plurality of sections are displayed as different display forms corresponding to each of the plurality of sections. However, a plurality of sections such as ◯, Δ, and × are displayed. Different marks corresponding to each may be displayed. Moreover, you may display the numerical value which is the frequency | count of conveyance as information which shows the frequency | count of conveyance.

(3) In the above embodiment, the display control means 17 is configured so that the display state of the display means can be switched between the path-specific display state and the total display state. You may comprise so that only a display state according to path | route among display states may be displayed on a display means. Further, the display control means 17 may be configured to display the display contents of the display state by route and the display contents of the total display state on one screen so that it is not necessary to switch the display state of the display means.

(4) In the above embodiment, the conveyance number counting means 16 is configured to count the number of conveyances for each of a plurality of conveyance paths for each time segment arranged in time series, and store it in association with the date and time. However, the conveyance number counting means 16 may simply be configured to count and store the number of conveyances for each of the plurality of conveyance paths.
In this case, the display control means 17 is configured to cause the display means to display information indicating the number of times of conveyance for each of the conveyance paths from when the conveyance number counting means 16 starts counting the number of conveyance times.

(5) In the above embodiment, the information indicating the number of times of conveyance is displayed at the intersection of the row and the column where the information indicating the conveyance source F and the information indicating the conveyance destination T are displayed. The form for displaying the information indicating the transport source F, the information indicating the transport destination T, and the information indicating the number of times of transport, such as displaying information, the information indicating the transport destination T, and the information indicating the number of times of transport, are appropriately changed. Is possible.

(6) In the above embodiment, the same number of crane control devices RC as the stacker cranes 10 are provided, the same number of warehouse control devices WC as the automatic warehouse 1, and one cart control device SC is provided for a plurality of article transport carts 4. Although one loading / unloading control device DC is provided, the same number of crane loading / unloading control devices DC as the loading conveyor 2 and the unloading conveyor 3 are provided. The transfer equipment corresponding to the control means C can be changed as appropriate, for example, by providing six units, the same number of the entrance / exit control devices WC as the entrance conveyor 8 and the exit conveyor 9.
In the above embodiment, a single transport management device CS is provided for the plurality of control means C. However, a plurality of transport management devices CS are provided so that a transport management device CS is provided for each of the control means C. May be provided.

2 Conveyor for transfer source 3 Conveyor for transfer destination 4 Cargo for conveying goods (Means for conveying goods)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 8 Conveyor for conveyance destinations 9 Conveyor for conveyance sources 13 Display means 16 Counting means for conveyance 17 Display control means a End of upstream side of transport b End of downstream side of transport F Transport source T Conveyance destination S Management means SC Conveyance control means

Claims (7)

Article transport means for transporting articles between a plurality of transport sources and a plurality of transport destinations;
Management means for managing conveyance command information for designating the conveyance destination for an article located at the conveyance source;
An article conveyance facility provided with a conveyance control means for controlling the operation of the article conveyance means based on the conveyance command information from the management means,
For each of a plurality of conveyance paths corresponding to a combination of the plurality of conveyance sources and the plurality of conveyance destinations, a conveyance number counting unit that counts and stores the number of conveyance times the article has been conveyed;
An article conveyance facility provided with display control means for displaying information indicating the number of conveyance times for each of the plurality of conveyance paths on a display means based on information stored in the conveyance number counting means. A plurality of conveyors for the conveyance source in which the conveyance downstream side end is set as the conveyance source are provided,
A plurality of transport destination conveyors having a transport upstream end set as the transport destination are provided,
The article conveying means is configured by an article conveying carriage that conveys an article between a conveyance downstream end of the plurality of conveyance source conveyors and a conveyance upstream end of the plurality of conveyance destination conveyors. The article conveyance facility according to claim 1. The display control means is
The plurality of transport sources and the plurality of transport destinations are displayed on the display means in a state where information indicating one of them is arranged in a row direction and information indicating the other is arranged in a column direction. Information indicating the number of times of conveyance for each of the plurality of conveyance paths is displayed on the display means at intersections between rows and columns where information indicating the origin and information indicating the plurality of conveyance destinations are displayed. The article conveying facility according to claim 1 or 2, wherein The display control means is
The conveyance stored in the conveyance number counting means from among the segment display information determined so as to have different display forms corresponding to each of the plurality of categories in which the size of the conveyance is divided into a plurality of stages. The article conveyance according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the article display information corresponding to the number of times is selected, and the selected category display information is displayed as information indicating the number of times of conveyance. Facility. The conveyance number counting means,
It is configured to count the number of times of conveyance for each of the plurality of conveyance paths for each time section arranged in chronological order, and store it in association with the date and time,
When the display target period is designated, the display control means is configured to display information indicating the number of times of conveyance for each of the conveyance paths in the designated display target period on the display means. Item conveying equipment of any one of claim | item 1-4. The display control means is
A display state for each route that causes the display means to collectively display information indicating the number of times of conveyance for each of the conveyance routes in a specified display target period, and conveyance of the plurality of conveyance routes for each of the time segments. 6. The article transport facility according to claim 5, wherein the display state of the display means is configured to be switchable between a total display state in which information indicating the total number of transports obtained by summing the number of times is displayed in time series.   The article conveyance facility according to claim 6, wherein the display control unit is configured to switch to the route-specific display state when the display target period is designated in the total display state.

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