Equipment Control System

摘要

A system includes transportation vehicles within a facility, an equipment controller, and a communication unit. The communication unit receives signals indicative of component locations within the facility, vehicle locations within the facility, and/or allocation requests for at least one of the components. The equipment controller schedules enactment of the allocation requests based on designated times associated with operations involved in the enactment of the allocation requests and monitors capacities of the transportation vehicles to carry the components within the facility while the transportation vehicles enact the allocation requests. The equipment controller generates signals for movement control of the transportation vehicles in order to combine the components for the allocation requests in at least one of the transportation vehicles. The transportation vehicles move the components within the facility as combined in the at least one of the transportation vehicles to enact the allocation requests according to the enactment that is scheduled.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
plural transportation vehicles within a facility; and an equipment controller comprising one or more processors and a communication unit operatively coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the communication unit is configured to receive first signals indicative of component locations of components within the facility, second signals indicative of one or more vehicle locations of the transportation vehicles within the facility, and third signals indicative of allocation requests for at least one of the components from different remote locations, wherein the equipment controller is configured to schedule enactment of the allocation requests based on designated times associated with one or more operations involved in the enactment of the allocation requests and to monitor capacities of the transportation vehicles to carry the components within the facility while the transportation vehicles enact the allocation requests, and wherein the equipment controller is configured to generate signals for movement control of the transportation vehicles in order to combine the components for the allocation requests of the different remote locations in at least one of the transportation vehicles, the transportation vehicles configured to move the components within the facility as combined in the at least one of the transportation vehicles to enact the allocation requests according to the enactment that is scheduled.