METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR FACILITATING A TRANSPORT SCHEME IN AN AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT

Patent №

US 7,010,377

Granted

2006-03-07

Filed 2004

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10709356

A method, system, and storage medium for facilitating a transport scheme in an automated material handling system environment are provided. The method includes detecting an occurrence of a trigger event while monitoring production operations in an automated material handling system environment, identifying a materials candidate to purge from a production line in response to the trigger event, production data captured relating to the materials candidate, and user-defined criteria for purging materials from the production line. The method also includes selecting a disposition plan for handling the materials candidate, generating a transport process job for the materials candidate for instructing the automated material handling system on executing the disposition plan, and transmitting the transport process job to the automated material handling system for execution.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.26
Evolutionary computation0.04
AI hardware0.03
Vision0.01
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 145570616

Assignors

GIFFORD, JEFFREY P., HARMUTH, GEORGE M.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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