Automated storage system and storage selection method
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorsTsuyoshi Nakano, Shigeo Doi
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Abstract
A management device includes: a section obtainer that obtains a section to which a load to be carried belongs; a unit obtainer that obtains a unit of handling which refers to a total number of loads to be collectively handled per unit, which belong to a same section; an unfilled subsection determiner that determines an unfilled subsection in which a total number of loads belonging to a same section in each of the automated storages is neither the unit of handling nor a multiple of the unit of handling; and a storage selector that, when there is an unfilled subsection corresponding to the section obtained by the section obtainer, selects, as a destination of the load, one of the automated storages which has the corresponding unfilled subsection.
Claims7
1-6. (canceled)
An automated storage system including a group of automated storages and a management device that manages storing of a load for the group of automated storages, the management device comprising:
- a section obtainer that obtains a section to which the load to be carried into the group of automated storages belongs;
- a unit obtainer that obtains a unit of handling that refers to a total number of loads to be collectively handled per unit, the loads being carried out of the group of automated storages and belonging to a same section;
- an unfilled subsection determiner that determines an unfilled subsection in which a total number of loads belonging to a same section in each of the automated storages is neither the unit of handling nor a multiple of the unit of handling;
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- a storage selector that, when there is an unfilled subsection corresponding to the section obtained by the section obtainer, selects, as a destination of the load, one of the automated storages which has the corresponding unfilled subsection.
A storage selection method for use in an automated storage system including a group of automated storages and a management device that manages storing of a load for the group of automated storages, the storage selection method comprising:
- obtaining, by a section obtainer, a section to which the load to be carried into the group of automated storages belongs;
- obtaining, by a unit obtainer, a unit of handling that refers to a total number of loads to be collectively handled per unit, the loads being carried out of the group of automated storages and belonging to a same section;
- determining, by an unfilled subsection determiner, an unfilled subsection in which a total number of loads belonging to a same section in each of the automated storages is neither the unit of handling nor a multiple of the unit of handling;
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- selecting, by a storage selector, when there is an unfilled subsection corresponding to the section obtained by the section obtainer, as a destination of the load, one of the automated storages which has the corresponding unfilled subsection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.