Patent ID: 11926483
Assignee: DAIFUKU CO., LTD.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. A transport vehicle arranging program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions for, in an article transport facility that comprises a plurality of article transport vehicles that travel along a specified travelable route and transport articles and a controller that controls the article transport vehicles, causing the controller to arrange the article transport vehicles,
the article transport vehicles comprising, as operation states, a first state of traveling toward a transport destination that is a destination set for receiving an article or delivering an article, and a second state of not being assigned a purpose of receiving an article or delivering an article, and
the transport vehicle arrangement program, when executed by at least one processor of the controller, causes the controller to perform an imbalance reduction control function comprising:
dividing an entirety of the travelable route into a plurality of set areas; and
arranging a standby transport vehicle such that imbalance of densities of standby transport vehicles present in the plurality of set areas is within a predetermined range, and the standby transport vehicles are the article transport vehicles in the second state.