PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD, PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently operate all manufacturing lines by appropriately conveying material and the like between the respective manufacturing lines in a physical distribution process. SOLUTION: A physical distribution control device is provided with an allowance time computing part 10 for computing allowance time up to following conveyance to an incoming side AGV skid 401 every manufacturing line 400 on the basis of the incoming side set-up state of the manufacturing line 400 and computing allowance time up to following conveyance from an outgoing side AGV skid 402 every manufacturing line 400 on the basis of the outgoing side set-up state, and a judging part 12 for determining the priority degree of conveyance to each manufacturing line 400 in the order of short allowance time to assign conveyance. The priority degree of conveyance can be dynamically determined in the order of short allowance while observing the state of each manufacturing line 400.