ARTICLE TRANSPORT FACILITY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME

摘要

An article transporting facility includes:
a single predetermined path (2) disposed along a plurality of article transfer locations (1)
and having a first end and a second end;
a predetermined number of article transporting carriages (3) traveling on the predetermined path (2);
controlling means for controlling traveling of the predetermined number of article transporting carriages (B);
wherein based on article transport request information for transporting an article (20) from an original article transfer location (19) to a destination article transfer location (1e) among the plurality of article transfer locations (1e), the controlling means controls the traveling of the transporting carriages (3) such that the controlling means selects an article transporting carriage (3a) from the plurality of article transporting carriages (B) for causing the selected carriage (3a) to transfer the article (20) from the original article transfer location (19) to the destination article transfer location (1e); and
when a multiple request condition exists wherein a plurality of transport request information designating a same single article transfer location as the original article transfer location are issued, the controlling means executes a multiple carriage selecting mode wherein the controlling means selects a plurality of article transporting carriages from the predetermined number of article transporting carriages for article transport.