Processing facility

A processing facility comprising:

• a transport vehicle which transports a processing target object by traveling along a transporting route which extends along a plurality of processing devices for performing processes of different steps on processing target objects and a storage device for storing the processing target objects,
• wherein each of the plurality of processing devices is configured to transmit, to primary managing means, process advancement information which includes carry-in request information for requesting a processing target object to be carried in and carry-out request information for requesting a processing target object to be carried out,
• wherein when the carry-in request information and the carry-out request information are transmitted, the primary managing means is configured to generate transport command information which indicates a transport origin and a transport destination for the processing target object and to transmit the transport command information to transport managing means,
• wherein the transport managing means is configured to control traveling of the transport vehicle based on the transport command information, and
• wherein the transport managing means is configured:
• to monitor the process advancement information which is transmitted from the processing device to the primary managing means;
• to select, as an advance transport origin and before the transport command information is transmitted from the primary managing means, a processing device, among the plurality of processing devices, in which a process performed on the processing target object has been completed, or is nearly completed;
• and to perform advance transport control in which the transport vehicle is caused to travel to the processing device selected as the advance transport origin.