Material processing path selection method and device

A material processing path selection device comprising:

• a first calculation circuit configured to calculate a plurality of candidate material processing paths;
• a determination circuit configured to determine a bottleneck process tank, the bottleneck process tank including a process tank having a highest use frequency among all process tanks, and a use frequency of the process tank being equal to a total process time length of all materials that need to be transferred to the process tank divided by a number of all the materials that need to be transferred to the process tank;
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• a second calculation circuit configured to, for each of the plurality of candidate material processing paths, calculate a bottleneck process tank utilization rate to select a candidate material processing path with a highest bottleneck process tank utilization rate among the plurality of candidate material processing paths as a target material processing path, the bottleneck process tank utilization rate being equal to an operation time length of the bottleneck process tank in a current candidate material processing path divided by a process time length of the candidate material path.

A computer-readable medium storing computer-readable program codes that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

• calculate a plurality of candidate material processing paths;
• determine a bottleneck process tank, the bottleneck process tank being a process tank having a highest use frequency in among all process tanks, a use frequency of the process tank being equal to a total process time length of all materials that need to be transferred to the process tank divided by a number of all the materials that need to be transferred to the process tank;
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• for each of the plurality of candidate material processing paths, calculate a bottleneck process tank utilization rate to select a candidate material processing path with a highest bottleneck process tank utilization rate in among the plurality of candidate material processing paths as a target material processing path, the bottleneck process tank utilization rate being equal to an operation time length of the bottleneck process tank in a current candidate material processing path divided by a process time length of the candidate material path.