JPH11180499A - Shipment control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make loading to tank trucks belonging to other principal sellers possible, by making car number cards of other principal sellers usable. SOLUTION: A shipment control system at an oil tank station is constructed of a host computer 11 controlling the oil tank station, a hatch-setting device 12 for executing hatch assigning processes, a plurality of loading control devices 13 installed at every shipment site and terminal devices 14, 15 for distribution systems of principal sellers A, B other than the concerned oil tank station. The host computer 11 extracts reservation information corresponding to vehicle information out of a data base corresponding to a discriminated principal seller and draws up in a unified format loading information including kinds and quantities of oil to be put in every hatch. The hatch-setting device 12 executes, when car number cards 19 of other principal sellers are inserted, hatch assignment for tank lorry, based on a data base drawn up in the unified format.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a shipping management system and, more particularly, to a shipping management system configured so that the same tank truck can be loaded with oil at different oil depots.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Oil tank stations for loading oils such as regular gasoline, high-octane gasoline, kerosene, light oil, etc. in each hatch of a tank truck are provided for each former selling company.
Each of the tank trucks distributes the oil liquid exclusively to each of the oil depots. Therefore, on the oil depot side, delivery management is performed by distributing a vehicle number card (vehicle card) composed of a magnetic card for identifying each tank lorry vehicle. In the magnetic storage unit of the vehicle number card, various information such as the vehicle number, the type of oil loaded in the hatch, the quantity, and the like are stored in a format determined for each original selling company.

[0003] When the loading of each oil type is carried out at the oil depot, the driver of the tank lorry vehicle departs from the oil depot and moves toward the refueling station of each delivery destination where the order is placed. Further, the tank lorry is provided with a plurality of hatches, so that one delivery can go around a plurality of gas stations. On the other hand, the host computer provided at the oil depot is
Reservation information created by an order from a customer, such as a gas station, via a center, and the shipping status of the oil liquid to be shipped based on the reservation information are managed for each tank truck. In addition, at the oil depot, based on the reservation file registered in the host computer, the oil type,
A hatch setting device that assigns how to load quantities is installed.

In this hatch setting device, the delivery schedule of each tank truck is created from the reservation file of the day, and the oil type, quantity, and delivery destination to be loaded for each hatch in the first delivery schedule are allocated. If the reservation information remains even after the first delivery schedule is created, the second and third delivery schedules are created and all the reservation information is allocated. And
When the driver of the tank truck arrives at the oil depot, he receives the assignment slip created by the hatch setting device and moves to the shipping stage. Thereafter, when the tank truck arrives at the shipping stage, the car number card of the tank truck is inserted into the card reader to read the car number. As a result, the host computer at the oil depot outputs the reservation information including the reservation quantity set for each tank hatch for the tank lorry vehicle corresponding to the vehicle number to the shipping control devices at a plurality of shipping stages.

[0005] As described above, at the oil depot, the reservation information to be delivered on that day is managed for each tank lorry vehicle, and the driver of the tank lorry vehicle operates the delivery information described on the assignment slip set by the hatch setting device. Distribute oil liquid based on schedule (oil type, quantity, delivery destination). However, depending on the delivery destination of the tank truck, the vehicle may be delivered to a place far away from the first oil depot where the first loading was performed on that day, and to the first oil depot to perform the second loading. When returning, time to and fro to and from the first oil depot,
In addition, the amount of fuel consumed according to the traveling distance between them is wasted, and the delivery efficiency may be significantly reduced.

In such a case, a second loading operation is performed at a second oil depot of another main selling company located near a delivery destination far from the first oil depot to accompany the movement of the tank truck. Minimizing losses is being considered.

[0007]

However, conventionally, the data format of vehicle data stored in the reservation file and the vehicle number card for each original selling company has been conventionally used.
Are different. Therefore, in order for the same tank lorry truck to receive the loading of oil liquid at the oil depots of different original selling companies, the driver of the tank lorry truck requires a plurality of vehicle number cards created according to the data format of each original selling company. It is necessary to carry.

[0008] For example, when there are five original selling companies, it is necessary to have five car number cards for each of the former selling companies, and it is not only troublesome to manage a plurality of car number cards, but also for each car. There is a problem that the operation of the driver carrying the number card becomes more complicated. In addition, since a plurality of car number cards must be possessed at all times, if a car number card in the form of a former selling company is forgotten or lost, the tanker truck at the former selling company's oil depot will not work. Will not be able to read the reservation information assigned to.

[0009] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a shipping management system which solves the above-mentioned problem.

[0010]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has the following features. The present invention is a storage means for storing a plurality of types of vehicle data data of tank trucks different from each other by a plurality of original selling companies, a vehicle card provided in the tank truck and storing different vehicle data for each tank truck. A card reader for reading the vehicle data stored in the vehicle card, and comparing the data format of the vehicle data read by the card reader with the data format of the vehicle data stored in the storage means. Vehicle data extracting means for extracting the original selling company code and the vehicle number from the vehicle data, and loading the oil liquid to the tank truck by reading out the shipping data based on the original selling company code and the vehicle number extracted by the vehicle data extracting means. And control means for performing control related to the above.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the data format of the vehicle data read by the card reader is compared with the data format of the vehicle data stored in the storage means, and the original sales company code and the original sales company code are obtained from the vehicle data of the vehicle card. To extract the vehicle number, read out the shipment data based on the extracted original selling company code and vehicle number, and control the loading of the oil liquid on the tank truck, so that different original selling companies receive the oil loading on the tank truck. However, one vehicle card can be used as a common card. This allows
The operation can be simplified by reducing the number of cards carried by the driver, and the delivery efficiency of the tank truck can be increased.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a shipping management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a shipping management system for an oil depot includes a host computer 11 that manages an oil depot and a hatch setting device that executes a hatch assignment process for a tank lorry (not shown) arriving at the oil depot. 12, a plurality of loading control device 13 installed in the factory site (13 ₁ to 13 _n),
It is composed of distribution system terminals 14 and 15 of the former sales companies A and B other than the oil depot. In addition, it is assumed that the oil depot is owned by the former selling company C.

The host computer 11 has a public line 63
Is connected to the reservation computer 65 via the. Therefore, when an oil liquid delivery order is input from each refueling station to the reservation computer 65 of the center, the reservation information of the oil depot is transmitted to the host computer 11 via the public line 63. Then, the hatch setting device 12 performs a process of allocating the oil type and quantity to the hatch corresponding to the vehicle number of each tank truck based on the reservation information input to the host computer 11.

The host computer 11 is connected online with the distribution system terminal 14 of the original selling company A via a communication line 16, and has the distribution system terminal 15 of the original selling company B and the magnetic disk 17. , The reservation information of the former selling company B can be received. Therefore, the storage device (storage means) 18 of the host computer 11 such as a magnetic disk device stores the reservation information storage unit 21 for storing the reservation information, and the reservation information transmitted from the distribution system terminal 14 of the original selling company A. And an FD reading processing program 25 for reading the reservation information created by the distribution system terminal 15 of the former selling company B from the magnetic disk 17.

The storage device 18 of the host computer 11 stores the original sales database 2 of each of the original sales companies A and B inputted via the public line 16 or the magnetic disk 17.
3, 26, the reservation contents unifying program 27 for converting the format of the reservation information of each of the original selling companies A and B into a common unified format, the original selling control table 28, and the unified format common to each of the original selling companies. The unified format reservation information database 29 and the like are stored.

The host computer 11 is also connected to a hatch setting device 12, and when a vehicle number card (vehicle card) 19 made of a magnetic card is inserted into the card reader section of the hatch setting device 12, it will be described later. Then, various information stored in the vehicle number card 19 is read, and it is determined from which former selling company the vehicle number card 19 was issued based on the data format. And the host computer 11
Performs vehicle data extraction processing of extracting reservation information corresponding to the vehicle information from the database corresponding to the determined original selling company and creating loading information such as oil type and quantity to be loaded into each hatch in a unified format. .

The hatch setting device 12 assigns the oil type and quantity to each hatch of the tank truck based on the database created in a unified format when the vehicle number cards 19 of different original selling companies are inserted. Do. Moreover, loading the control device 13 (13 ₁ ~13 _n) is connected to the host computer 11 via a serial line 20, the tank lorry vehicle inserts the vehicle number card 19 arrived at the delivery stage to the card reader , Car number card 19
Reservation information (delivery destination name, delivery date and time, oil type, quantity, etc.) corresponding to the vehicle number read from the host computer 1
The data is read from the database stored in the reservation information storage unit 21 stored in the first storage device 18, and the loading setting to each hatch is performed based on the reservation information.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing a format of the reservation information storage section stored in the storage device 18 of the host computer 11. As shown in FIG. 2, the reservation information storage unit 21 stores information required for loading the oil liquid, such as the original sale code, the vehicle number, the slip number, and the loading quantity data. FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing the format of the original sale control table 28.

As shown in FIG. 3, the original sale control table 28 stores information such as an original sale code, an original sale reservation data file name, a vehicle number, a slip number, a product name, a product code, and a quantity. I have. FIG. 4 shows the host computer 1.
1 is a system diagram for explaining processing of reservation information received from the distribution system terminals 14 and 15 of each original selling company in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 4, the distribution system terminal 14 of the original selling company A transmits the reservation information of the original selling company A to the host computer 11 of the oil depot on-line. That is, the reservation information transmitted via the communication line 16 is arithmetically processed by the communication processing program 22 in the host computer 11 and stored in the reservation database 23 of the original selling company A.

When the magnetic disk 17 created by the distribution system terminal 15 of the former selling company B is inserted into the magnetic disk device 24, the FD reading processing program 25 for reading the reservation information from the magnetic disk 17 is executed. Is done. Then, the reservation information read from the magnetic disk 17 is stored in the reservation database 26 of the former selling company B.

In the host computer 11, the reservation database 23 of the former selling company A and the reservation database 26 of the former selling company B are executed by the reservation content unifying program 27.
After determining the original selling company based on the original selling control table 28, each of the reservation information stored in the database is converted into data in a unified format to create a unified format reservation information database 29. That is, the host computer 11
Extracts the original sales company code and the vehicle number from the vehicle data of the vehicle card by comparing the data format of the vehicle data read by the card reader with the data format of the vehicle data stored in the storage device 18 (vehicle data). Data extraction means). The reservation information is read out based on the original selling company code and the vehicle number extracted as described above, and the reservation information of the unified format for the tank truck is stored in the unified format reservation information database 29.

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing an example of the format of the card data stored in the magnetic storage unit of the vehicle number card 19. As shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 5A, the card data 31 stored in the car number card 19 of the former selling company A
In the example, a first spare area 32 is provided next to the area of the vehicle number, and a second spare area 33 is provided before the EXT area. The storage capacity of the first spare area 32 is 7 bytes, and the storage capacity of the second spare area 33 is 22 bytes.

As shown in FIG. 5B, the card data 34 stored in the car number card 19 of the former selling company B is
A spare area 35 is provided between the hatch information area and the card type area. The storage capacity of the spare area 35 is 1 byte. Thus, the card data 31 stored in the car number card 19 of the former selling company A and the former selling company B
The format of the spare area is different from the card data 34 stored in the car number card 19, and each original selling company has its own spare area.

Therefore, it is possible to read the information stored in the vehicle number card 19 and determine the former selling company which issued the vehicle number card 19 by detecting the position of the spare area and the storage capacity. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of the oil tank station. As shown in FIG. 6, the host computer 11 stores the reservation information in the storage device 18 and transfers the reservation information to the loading control device 13 and the hatch setting device 12. The hatch setting device 12 includes a card reader / writer 48, a display main body 49, a keyboard 50, a printer 51, a CPU 52, and the like.

Also, the host computer 11 of the oil depot is used.
Is communicably connected via a public line 53 to a reservation computer 65 installed at a distribution center. When there is an order (oil type and quantity) from a customer such as a gas station, the reservation computer 65 transmits these orders as reservation information to the host computer 11 of the oil depot. Loading control device 1
Reference numeral 3 is provided for each shipping stage 57 and controls each device of the shipping stage 57. When a vehicle number card 19 distributed for each tank truck 55 is read by the card reader 64 as described later, the corresponding device 3 is provided. The reservation information of the vehicle number to be transferred is transferred from the host computer 11, and shipping control is performed so that the oil type and quantity included in the reservation information are shipped to the tank truck 55.

In the tank truck 55, the inside of the tank 56 is partitioned into a plurality of hatches.
It is different, such as kiloliters, 2 kiloliters, and 4 kiloliters. When the tank lorry 55 arrives at the shipping stage 57, the oil type set by the hatch setting device 12 is loaded on each hatch of the tank 56 as described later.

In the memory of the hatch setting device 12, a control program for determining the affiliated original selling company from the data format stored in the car number card 19 and the determined reservation data of another original selling company are stored in a unified format. And a hatch allocation control program for performing a hatch allocation process based on the unified format of the reservation data.

The shipping device 51 provided at the shipping site includes a loading control device 13, a card reader 64, a remote switch box 66 having a hatch card reader, a grounding device 67, and a quantity to be loaded by an operator at each shipping point. It consists of a loading setting device 68 to be set. The loading setting device 68 has a loading amount setting switch 68 for setting the loading amount.
a, a start switch 68b for starting shipment, and a stop switch 68c for stopping shipment. Further, the remote switch box 66 and the loading setting device 68 of the present embodiment are integrated, and these are attached to the loading arm 75.

A storage tank (not shown) in which the oil liquid is stored.
A pump 70, a strainer 71, a flow meter 72, a constant flow valve 73, and a fixed amount valve 74 are provided in a supply pipe 69 connected to the supply pipe 69 for supplying the oil liquid. Further, a loading arm 75 is communicated with a leading end of the feed pipe 69.
In the shipping stage 67, the loading arm 7
Although only one 5 is shown, a plurality of 5 are actually provided for each oil type.

The shipping stage 67 is provided with a reserved amount display 76 for displaying the type of oil to be loaded for each hatch assigned by the hatch setting device 12. Therefore, the operator operates the loading setting device 68 while watching the display content of the reservation amount display device 76. Reference numeral 81 denotes a gas purge stage, which is provided at a location different from the shipping stage 57. The gas purging stage 81 is provided with a gas purging loading arm 82 for purging vapor remaining in the hatch of the tank truck 55. When loading the oil liquid into the hatch of the tank truck 55, if the last loaded oil type is the first petroleum (such as highly flammable gasoline), the inside of the hatch must be purged with gas to remove residual vapor. Must. for that reason,
If the slip of the tank lorry 55 indicates that gas purging is required in the slip created by the hatch setting device 12, the gas purging stage 81 before moving to the shipping stage 57.
It is necessary to perform a gas purge operation.

In some oil tanks, the shipping stage 57 may be used.
May be provided with a loading arm 82 for gas purging, in which case the hatch of the tank truck 55 can be gas purged at the shipping stage 57. Here, the procedure for loading the tank truck 55 into the hatch will be described. When the tank lorry 55 arrives at the oil depot, the driver inserts the vehicle number card 77 issued for each tank lorry 55 into the card reader / writer 58 of the hatch setting device 12, and the vehicle stored in the vehicle number card 19 Read the number.

When the hatch setting device 12 reads the vehicle number from the vehicle number card 19, the hatch setting device 12 requests the host computer 11 for the reservation data of the corresponding vehicle number and obtains the reservation information corresponding to the vehicle number from the host computer 11. Then, oil types and quantities to be loaded on each hatch of the tank truck 55 are assigned based on the reservation information held by the reservation data, and the assigned oil type and quantity for each hatch are printed with hatch information. The issued slip is issued from the printer 61.

When the driver receives the slip, if there is a hatch in which gasoline has been loaded in the previous loading operation, the driver moves to the gas purge stage 81 and inserts the gas purge loading arm 82 into the hatch to insert the gas purge into the hatch. Remove residual vapor. Then, the driver moves the tank truck 55 to the shipping stage 57 when the gas purging operation for all hatches in which gasoline has been loaded last time is completed.

Thereafter, the driver inserts the loading arm 75 of the shipping stage 57 into the hatch. And
The quantity to be loaded is set by the loading setting device 68, and the start switch 68b is turned on. in this way,
When the start switch 68b of the loading setting device 68 is turned on, the loading control device 13 starts the pump 70, opens the metering valve 74, and starts loading. Then, the flow rate pulse from the flow rate pulse transmitter 72a of the flow meter 72 is integrated, and the fixed quantity valve 74 is closed when the flow rate set by the loading amount setting switch 68a is shipped.

Next, a control process executed by the CPU of the hatch setting device 12 when loading into a tank lorry vehicle of a different original selling company will be described. FIG. 7 shows a hatch setting device 12.
9 is a flowchart of a control process executed by the CPU of FIG.
In FIG. 7, the CPU of the hatch setting device 2 determines the vehicle number card 19 in step S1 (hereinafter, “step” is omitted).
When inserted into the card reader 58, the process proceeds to S2, where the card information stored in the magnetic storage unit of the vehicle number card 19 is read.

In the next step S3, information such as the original sale code, the original sale reservation data file name, the vehicle number, the slip number, the product name, the product code, and the quantity stored in the original sale control table 28 are read. Then, in S4, the data format of the magnetic storage unit of the vehicle number card 19 is compared with the data format stored in the original sale control table 28. In the next S5, if the two data formats do not match, the process returns to S3 and returns to S3.
Steps S5 to S5 are repeated.

However, if the two data formats match in S5, the flow advances to S6 to recognize the original selling company from the data format of the card information stored in the magnetic storage unit of the vehicle number card 19. In the next step S7, the reservation data corresponding to the vehicle number is read from the unified format reservation information database 29 created in the unified format common to the original selling companies.

Then, the program proceeds to S8, in which a process of allocating the tank truck 55 to each hatch is executed based on the reservation data in the unified format. In step S9, the hatch allocation result is printed on a slip and issued. Thus, even when the tank truck 55 of the original selling company different from the oil depot arrives, the original selling company that issued the vehicle number card 19 is determined based on the data format stored in the magnetic storage unit of the vehicle number card 19. Then, the reservation data corresponding to the gymnastics vehicle number of the former selling company is read from the unified format reservation information database 29.

Therefore, even when oil tanks are loaded on the tank lorry 55 at the oil depots of different base selling companies, one vehicle number card 19 can be used as a common card. As a result, the number of car number cards 19 carried by the driver can be reduced to simplify the work, and the card loss accident can be reduced. For this reason, at the oil depot, the reserved oil type and quantity can be loaded into each hatch of the tank lorry vehicle 55 even in different original selling companies. Therefore, it is possible to carry out the loading operation of the oil liquid at the oil depot of another company near the delivery destination, and to save time, fuel and the like until the tank lorry 55 returns to the registered oil depot, thereby improving the delivery efficiency. Can be increased.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining the loading control processing executed by the loading control device 13. As shown in FIG. 8, in S11, when the car number card 19 is inserted into the card reader 64 in the shipping stage, the process proceeds to S12, where the unified format reservation information stored in the unified format reservation information database 29 is read.

In the next S13, it is checked whether or not the setting operation by the loading setting device 68 has been completed. This S
In 13, when the setting operation by the loading setting device 68 is completed, the process proceeds to S 14, and the setting information (oil type and quantity) set by the loading setting device 68 and the unified format stored in the unified format reservation information database 29. Is compared with the reservation data. Then, in S15, when the setting information of the loading setting unit 68 and the reservation data in the unified format match, the process proceeds to S16, and the interlock is released. Then, in S17, the loading setting device 6
It is confirmed that the start button 68b of No. 8 has been turned on.

When the start switch 68b of the loading setting device 68 is turned on in S17, loading start processing is executed in S18. That is, the loading setting device 68
When the start switch 68b is turned on, the pump 70 is started, and then the metering valve 74 is opened to start loading. And the flow rate pulse transmitter 72a of the flow meter 72
From the load pulse setting switch 68a
When the flow rate set by the above is shipped, the metering valve 74 is closed.

In the next S19, when it is confirmed that the loading of the quantity set by the loading setting unit 68 is completed,
Proceeding to S20, it is checked whether or not reservation data not yet loaded remains. In S20, if the reservation data which has not yet been loaded remains, the process returns to S13, and the processes from S13 onward are repeated. Also,
In S20, when all the oil liquids of the reservation data corresponding to the vehicle number have been loaded, the process proceeds to S21, and the completion of loading is output to the host computer 11.

If the setting information of the loading setting device 68 does not match the reservation data in the unified format in S15, the process proceeds to S22 to issue an alarm, and in S23, an instruction to re-perform the loading setting. After that, the process returns to S13, and the processes after S13 are repeated.
As described above, even when the tank lorry vehicle 55 of a different original selling company arrives at the shipping stage 57, the setting information set by the loading setting unit 68 based on the unified format reservation information stored in the unified format reservation information database 29. In order to confirm whether or not it is correct, the loading operation of the oil liquid can be performed in the tank lorry vehicle 55 of a different original selling company as in the normal case.

In the above-described embodiment, companies A and B have been described as examples of the primary selling companies different from the oil depots. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, three or more different primary selling companies may supply oil to tank lorry vehicles. Of course, it can be applied to loading.

[0047]

As described above, according to the present invention, the data format of the vehicle data read by the card reader is compared with the data format of the vehicle data stored in the storage means, and the vehicle data of the vehicle card is compared with the original data format. Extract the selling company code and vehicle number, read out the shipment data based on the extracted original selling company code and vehicle number, and control the loading of the oil liquid to the tanker truck. One vehicle card can be used as a common card even when receiving oil liquid loading. As a result, the number of cards carried by the driver can be reduced to simplify the work, and the number of accidental card loss can be reduced. Further, since the tank lorry can receive the loading of the oil liquid at the oil depot near the delivery destination, there is no need to return to the oil depot located away from the delivery destination, and the delivery efficiency by the tank lorry can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an embodiment of a shipping management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically illustrating a format of a reservation information storage unit stored in a storage device of a host computer.

FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing a format of an original sale control table.

FIG. 4 is a system diagram for explaining processing of reservation information received from a distribution system terminal of each original selling company by a host computer.

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a format of card data stored in a magnetic storage unit of a vehicle number card.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an oil tank place.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a control process executed by a CPU of the hatch setting device.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a loading control process performed by the loading control device.

[EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS] 11 host computer 12 hatch setter 13 (13 ₁ ~13 _n) loading the control devices 14 and 15 distribution system terminal 17 magnetic disk 18 storage 21 reservation information storage unit 22 communication processing program 23, 26 yuan Selling database 25 FD reading processing program 27 Reservation contents unifying program 28 Original selling control table 29 Unified format reservation information database 31 Card data 32 First spare area 33 Second spare area 34 Card data 35 Spare area 55 Tank truck 57 Shipping stage 64 Card reader 68 Loading setting device 69 Feeding piping 70 Pump 72 Flow meter 73 Constant flow valve 74 Constant flow valve 75 Loading arm

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage means for storing a plurality of types of vehicle data of tank trucks different from each other by a plurality of original selling companies, a vehicle card provided in the tank truck and storing vehicle data different for each tank truck. A card reader for reading vehicle data stored in the vehicle card; comparing a data format of the vehicle data read by the card reader with a data format of the vehicle data stored in the storage means; Vehicle data extracting means for extracting the original selling company code and the vehicle number from the vehicle data; and loading the oil liquid into the tank truck by reading out the shipping data based on the original selling company code and the vehicle number extracted by the vehicle data extracting means. And a control means for controlling the delivery control system. Temu.