| 摘要 |
<p>A material handling system and method for a material handling facility is disclosed. Illustrated as an example, is a simplified material handling facility with three sources (a car dumper (11), a processing plant (13), and a reclaimer (15)) and three destinations (a shiploader (17), a stacker (19), and a tripper (21)) and associated transporters in the form of conveyors (A, B, C, E, F), and (G). Conveyors (A, B), and (C) lead to a conveyor (D), which discharges to conveyors (E, F), and (G). The number of route combinations in the material handling system is (49). The control system and method of the invention controls the material handling facility using a database which is managed using a configuration module. Once each of the equipment configurations are defined (<i</p> |
