Patent ID: 9576080
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a processor, a model of a facility, the model identifying pieces of material handling equipment and data associated with each piece of the identified pieces of material handling equipment, the data comprising an equipment type; generating, at the processor, a listing of the pieces of material handling equipment infeed and discharge edges based at least in part on the received model and the equipment type; identifying, at the processor, one or more valid links between the pieces of material handling equipment in the listing based at least in part on the infeed and discharge edges that do not appear correctly matched due to their different widths by applying a rule associated with the respective equipment types of the pieces; generating, at the processor, an indication of the identified valid links; and creating a model of the valid links ,indicating how material may move through the material handling system.