Patent ID: 9495656
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G05B,G06Q,H01L

Claim Text:
1. A material handling method of performing by means of an automatic mechanical material handling equipment controlled by a control system at least a first and a second access task for accessing respectively at least a first and at least a second article stored in a material handling storage system, the first and second access tasks having been assigned a first and a second execution priority respectively, the method comprising: a) controlling the automatic mechanical material handling equipment to perform the first access task having the highest priority; and in parallel to performing the first access task; b) controlling the automatic mechanical material handling equipment to perform at least the first intermediate task and the second access task according to the order of execution priorities, wherein a third access task for accessing a third article is assigned a lower execution priority than the second execution priority, wherein the second access task comprises an initialization and an execution phase, the method further comprising: