Automatic Logistics system

System description

Automatic logistics system of production is on-line material management system taking manufacturing service as its kernel. It connects up to the EIMS and down to real time industry control system, and is integrated with logistics production guarantee management, material management and warehouse management. The computer system is the core of logistics system control and information processing and storage center. It coordinates all business links to achieve material's efficient and orderly flow and scientific management. Meanwhile, it provides logistics data and assistant decision making information needed by enterprise decision making support system.

According to the function analysis and orientation of automatic logistics system, the management and control structure of system can be divided into 3 layers, i.e. information management layer, dispatching control layer, equipment executing layer. 

System function model is as follows:

Information management layer

It achieves system's management function. Meanwhile, it is an interface layer between the automatic logistics system and enterprise information management system

Complete function

- Real-time inquiry on inventory, location information, ongoing execution information, etc.

- User authorization management.

- Totally support bar code technology to achieve batch management and whole procedure tracking.

- Support multiple warehouse business management

- Dynamically control and dispatch transporting unit.

- Real-time detect, monitor and control, manage equipments.

- Provide material absent, over storage, overstock report.

- Provide cataloged statistics report of logistics task.

- Provide integrated information query, such information as operation, equipment status, inventory, storage position, material property, plan, warehouse input and output. 

- Provide detailed operation log.

Dispatching control layer

Complete function

- Integrate control equipment interface of logistics system.

- Execute logistics command and deliver it to executing layer equipments.

- Detect and display equipment running status.

- Report and record equipment trouble, communication trouble and executing equipment trouble.

- Monitor and display the status and position of material flow in real time.

Database and Ethernet  Field bus  Con. equ.  .equ  Communication  Material flow running status  Stock analysis and report  Equipment status operation  execution report.

Equipment executing layer

It is a special control system or industrial control net integrated with various executing equipment. The integrated automatic logistics system consists of conveyance control system, AGV dispatching system, stacker crane system, robot system, etc.

TIMMS (Totally Integrated Material Management System)

TIMMS is a logistics software package developed independently for automatic logistics system by KSEC basing on uniform data structure. It adopts the multi-module system combined by C/S and B/S.

TIMMS is constructed on industry control net, running in the network system and database environment. On base of integration technology, the system can make the material command be quickly & accurately executed as well as the material flow information being collected, processed, transmitted, saved and analyzed, to help making correct decision for coordinating all business links to ensure the material flow in order and with high efficiency. Meanwhile, the system can provide necessary logistics data and auxiliary decision information to the support system of enterprise information decision through analyzing the material consumption, storage situation and getting the production situation in real time. Taking the production scheduling as its core, the system integrates material handling equipment, dispatching & monitoring sub-system, material flow management sub-system to tracking the material flow and information flow so as to ensure the supply chain of whole enterprise be run in mode of transparency and straightway.

TIMMS mainly consists of 3 function modules: material management module, scheduling management module and operation control module. The material management module supports warehousing management on various kind of warehousing business, and accessing basic material information from relevant management systems. The production scheduling module can provide comprehensive information analyzing and inquiring, dispatch and control all material handling equipments, supervise the logistics command executing condition. The operation control module integrates various industrial control network or special control systems for all executing equipments.

TIMMS can dispatch all equipments with different functions in system to ensure the seamless connecting between system and equipments with friendly and simple operating interface for easy operating.