Conveyance system
AssigneeYahata Holdings Corporation
InventorsNoriyuki Suzuki, Kyuichi Nishizato
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Abstract
A conveyance system includes a feeding device, a reading device, a weight measuring device, a storage device, a notification device, and an arithmetic control device which compares the number of pickings of the articles obtained by dividing a difference between the reference weight value and a measurement value after operation as a weight of the container after picking of the articles by the unit weight, with the number of incoming orders, determines whether there is an excess or deficiency, and when there is an excess or deficiency, notifies the excessive or deficient number of articles by the notification device.
Claims3
A conveyance system comprising:
- a feeding means that enables feeding of containers that store articles to which article-related information is associated;
- a reading means capable of reading the article-related information of the articles assigned to the container;
- a weight measuring means that measures a weight of the container storing the articles;
- a storage means that stores the article-related information of the articles;
- a notification means that notifies an excessive or deficient number of the articles;
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- an arithmetic control means that performs counting management and sorting control of the articles, wherein
- the article-related information includes a unit weight of the articles, the number of incoming orders of the articles, and a reference weight value derived by measuring or calculating a weight of the container storing the articles,
- the arithmetic control means compares
- a number of pickings of the articles obtained by dividing a difference between the reference weight value and a measurement value after operation as a weight of the container after picking of the articles by the unit weight, and
- the number of incoming orders,
- determines whether there is an excess or deficiency, and when there is an excess or deficiency, notifies the excessive or deficient number of articles by the notification means.
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