WAITING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ARTICLE TO BE PRODUCED

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the processing time at the time of retrieval of article to be delivered from waiting means of articles to be produced by separating data retrieval at the time when the article to be produced is delivered to the waiting means from the data describing various information at the time of delivering out. SOLUTION: A stocker controller 6 manages or controls delivering-in/out of article to be produced with respect to a stocker 2. In relation to requirement for transferring an article to be worked from a step based on the fact that there is no transfer of an article to be produced from a step prior to a step, an article to be produced which is waiting in an optimum stocker 2 among a plurality of stockers 2 is thrown in a step in accordance with the retrieval index of retrieval table 11 for articles to be delivered out. Accordingly the time from the point of generation in the requirement for transferring an article to be worked to the point of throwing of the article to be produced is reduced to maximize the production performance of production line.