Method and control unit for providing transport data for controlling a goods transport in a production environment, and production environment

A control unit for providing transport data for controlling goods transport in a production environment, said control unit comprising:

• an occupancy determining data unit configured to determine, based on sensor data of a sensor unit disposed at a production unit in the production environment, occupancy data relating to an occupancy status of at least one goods inlet of a production unit in the production environment having stored components;
• a component data determining unit configured to determine component data that indicate which components are required at the production unit for a production order assigned to the production unit;
• a procurement data determining unit configured to determine procurement data for components to be installed at least in dependence on a position of a respective storage location and a position of the production unit, with the procurement data indicating how long it is expected to take to transport a respective one of the components to be installed according to the component data from the respective storage location to the production unit;
• a transport data determining unit configured to determine transport data describing a transport process to be carried out, using an optimization algorithm that receives the occupancy data, the component data and the procurement data as input data and outputs the transport data;
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• an output interface configured to output the transport data and transmit the transport data to a transport system for controlling transport of the components based on the transport data.