DocumentCode
2739629
Title
Generic material handling system
Author
Zimran, Eyal
Author_Institution
Digital Equipment Corp., Shrewsbury, MA, USA
fYear
1990
fDate
21-23 May 1990
Firstpage
380
Lastpage
387
Abstract
An advanced conveyor-based material-handling system called ORTC (on request transport controller) is presented. ORTC consists of a MicroVAX computer under the VMS operating system and a set of distributed BITBUS microcontrollers (nodes) that directly control I/O (input/output) points on the conveyor. Each BITBUS node controls up to eight decision points (or junctions) on the conveyor. A hierarchical control architecture and a flexible and modular software package are implemented to execute the control strategy. The ORTC system is configurable to support many types of conveyor hardware and plant layouts
Keywords
computerised materials handling; conveyors; microcontrollers; BITBUS; MicroVAX; ORTC; VMS; conveyor-based material-handling system; distributed microcontrollers; hierarchical control architecture; on request transport controller; Costs; Databases; Distributed control; Hardware; Materials handling; Robustness; Software design; System recovery; Trademarks; Voice mail;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 1990., Proceedings of Rensselaer's Second International Conference on
Conference_Location
Troy, NY
Print_ISBN
0-8186-1966-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CIM.1990.128129
Filename
128129
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