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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conveyance control system and a conveyance control method for an automatic warehouse for conveying an article efficiently and accurately. SOLUTION: This automatic warehouse 1 provided with a plurality of shelves 10, a plurality of inlet and outlet ports 11, and two cranes 21, 22 conveying an article among them and running on the same rail is provided with a warehouse management means 101 for managing information of articles in the automatic warehouse 1 and outputting a conveyance demand for the article, a conveyance planning means 103 for determining conveyance commands for the cranes 21, 22 based on the conveyance demand outputted from the warehouse management means 101, and a conveyance control means 102 for transmitting conveyance commands determined by the conveyance planning means 103 to the cranes 21, 22. The conveyance planning means 103 determines the order of priority of the conveyance demands based on a crane position, degree of priority of the articles, and elapsed time from the outputting of the conveyance demand and determines the conveyance commands for preventing the interference of the cranes according to the order starting from the crane handling the conveyance demand having the highest order of priority. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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