Patent ID: 9063538
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. An article processing facility comprising: at least one article transport device for transporting an article to be transported; a transport controller for controlling an operation of the at least one article transport device; a managing controller for managing transport data which is generated by associating a transport origin and a transport destination for the article to be transported with unique identifying information, and for transmitting to the transport controller a transport command for transporting an article to be transported from the transport origin to the transport destination based on the transport data for the article to be transported; a display controller for causing display portion to display transport-data-associated information that corresponds to the transport data, based on the transport data managed by the managing controller; a manually operated selector for selecting the transport-data-associated information displayed on the display portion; wherein the managing controller is configured to manage and store attribute information for one or more items held in the article that is a subject of a transport operation for the transport data such that the attribute information is associated with the identifying information that identifies the transport data, and wherein when the transport-data-associated information displayed on the display portion is selected with the selector, the display controller is configured to obtain from the managing controller the attribute information associated with the identifying information for the transport data that corresponds to the transport-data-associated information, and to display the attribute information on the display portion.