| CPC B65G 1/1373 (2013.01) [B65G 1/1371 (2013.01); G05B 19/41815 (2013.01); G05B 19/4183 (2013.01); G05B 19/41835 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01)] | 6 Claims |
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1. A warehouse facility comprising:
a storage area comprising a plurality of storage sections for storing a transporting tool for placing an article thereon or putting an article therein when the article is transported;
a work area comprising a plurality of work blocks to each of which a user is allocated, and in which a loading operation and an unloading operation for the transporting tool allocated to each user from and to the storage area is performed;
a storage area management unit for managing the storage area;
a work block management unit for managing an operational state including a state of the loading operation and the unloading operation in each of the plurality of work blocks; and
a comprehensive management unit for managing a tool code that is set for each of a plurality of the transporting tools and a user code that is set for each of a plurality of the users, and for managing usage-related information that is obtained by storing a relationship between the tool code of each of the plurality of transporting tools stored in the storage area and the user code of the user to which each of the transporting tools is allocated,
wherein:
the storage area is provided with a transport device for performing loading transport to transport the transporting tool to the storage sections, and for unloading transport to transport the transporting tool from the storage sections,
the storage area management unit causes the transport device to perform the loading transport or the unloading transport based on an instruction from the comprehensive management unit,
assuming that a target work block of the plurality of work blocks is a target block, a user who uses the target block is a target user, and the work block management unit that manages the operational state in the target block is a target block management unit,
the target block management unit designates the tool code and makes an unloading request to unload the transporting tool from the storage area to the comprehensive management unit, and
if the unloading request is made from the target block management unit, the comprehensive management unit gives the storage area management unit an unloading transport instruction to perform the unloading transport for the transporting tool for which the unloading request has been made under an unloading permission condition that a relationship between the tool code designated in the unloading request and the user code of the target user is stored in the usage-related information.
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