Article Transport Facility

An article transport facility comprising:

• one or more travel rails supported by a ceiling;
• a plurality of support platforms provided on a ground side and along the one or more travel rails;
• an article transport vehicle which is suspended from and supported by the one or more travel rails, and is configured to travel along a travel path defined by the one or more travel rails, to suspend and support an article, and to transport the article from one of the plurality of support platforms that serves as a transport origin to another of the plurality of support platforms that serves as a transport destination, wherein the ceiling transport vehicle has a travel portion configured to travel along the travel path, a support member which is supported by the travel portion and which is configured to hold, suspend, and support, the article, a vertically moving portion configured to vertically move the support member with respect to the travel portion when the travel portion is at rest, and a profile storage configured to store transporting-purpose profile information which includes at least information on an amount of operation of the support portion and the vertically moving portion for transferring an article to or from each of the plurality of support platforms;
• an adjusting-purpose device which is used for a purpose of adjusting the transporting-purpose profile information;
• an adjusting-purpose support platform which includes an adjusting-purpose support surface on which the adjusting-purpose device can be placed in a same manner in which an article is placed on a support platform;
• wherein the adjusting-purpose device is:
• capable of being suspended from and supported by the support member in a same manner in which an article is suspended from and supported by the support member;
• capable of being placed on a support platform by the article transport vehicle in a same manner in which an article is placed on the support platform;
• and
• configured to obtain information on an amount of operation of the support portion and the vertically moving portion when an article is transferred to or from the adjusting-purpose support surface to adjust the transporting-purpose profile information, and
• wherein the adjusting-purpose support surface is capable of being moved such that a height thereof can be varied continuously between an upper limit height and a lower limit height specified in advance.