Abstract: There is provided a method of workflow assignment, including: identifying an actionable event; determining a plurality of tasks for the actionable event; determining, for each of the plurality of tasks, one or more task parameters related to the task; and generating, for the actionable event, a workflow for each of one or more individuals to perform at least one of the plurality of tasks based on the one or more task parameters. There is also provided a corresponding system for workflow assignment.

Abstract: Systems and methods to automate both emergency identification and emergency response to minimize response time while optimizing the dispatching of different types of first responders are provided. The system may include an automation system. The automation system may receive a plurality of data elements from a plurality of sensors. The automation system may extract a set of features from the plurality of data elements. The automation system may identify an emergency situation based on the set of features and a set of rules. The automation system may assess the priority of the emergency situation based on a set of data elements associated with the emergency situation and a set of policies. The automation system may select a responder in response to the identified emergency situation. The automation system may dispatch the selected responder to an area related to the identified emergency situation.

Abstract: A warehouse management system includes a controller provided with a storage unit which stores order information that associates items, numbers, and delivery destinations of articles, a warehousing priority calculation unit that determines warehousing priorities of a plurality of items of articles based on the items and quantities of the articles to be delivered to respective delivery destinations, as specified from the order information, and a warehousing instruction unit that outputs an instruction to store the articles based on the warehousing priorities.

Abstract: A warehouse management system includes a controller provided with a storage unit which stores order information that associates items, numbers, and delivery destinations of articles, a warehousing priority calculation unit that determines warehousing priorities of a plurality of items of articles based on the items and quantities of the articles to be delivered to respective delivery destinations, as specified from the order information, and a warehousing instruction unit that outputs an instruction to store the articles based on the warehousing priorities.

Abstract: Provided is a rack management system, including a processor and a storage unit. The storage unit stores information indicating positions of sections included in an area in which storage racks that store articles can be arranged. One of the storage racks can be arranged in each of the sections. At least one of the sections is surrounded by other adjacent sections without an aisle to convey the storage racks therebetween. The processor classifies the sections into sections assigned ranks indicating a degree of efficiency of an operation to convey the storage racks placed therein to a predetermined working area, and one or more empty sections into which, if there is a need to move one or more other storage racks in order to convey a storage rack placed in a given section, the other storage racks that were moved are placed, and outputs results of the classification.

Abstract: The picking system according to the present invention for executing operation assistance corresponding to an operation target relating to physical distribution receives an order designating a specific article, retrieves a first storage position at which the specific article is stored from shelf stock information, generates operation instruction data relating to a specific operation target for instructing to move the specific article from the first storage position to a second storage position, refers to operation station information and accesses the first storage position, retrieves a specific operation station capable of performing the specific operation target, transmits the operation instruction data to a terminal of the specific operation station, and transmits, to a movement device, conveyance instruction data instructing to convey a conveyance rack to the specific operation station.

Abstract: An order management apparatus executes reception processing to receive at least one order, the number of pieces of the articles to be issued out and delivery destinations of the articles to be issued out; determination processing to determine likelihood of conflict on a specific delivery shelf before the issuing-out operation based on whether, while the issuing-out operation is completed since the specific delivery to store the articles has been transported to a first working station, an instruction on the issuing-out operation for the articles to be issued out from the specific delivery shelf at the second working station occurs; and setting processing to set the number of pieces of the articles to be issued out to be stored within the specific delivery shelf or between the specific delivery shelf and another delivery shelf based on the determination on the likelihood of the conflict on the specific delivery shelf.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, there is provided a control arrangement for maintenance of a collection of physical devices, the control arrangement including: a receiver configured to receive observation data, the observation data representative of physical conditions of each physical device of the collection of physical devices; a processor configured to compute respective maintenance output data of maintaining different combinations of the physical devices, based on the observation data; and a controller configured to determine the combination of the physical devices to be maintained based on a comparison of the computed respective maintenance output data, the controller further configured to control maintenance of the determined combination of the physical devices.

Abstract: Systems and methods to automate both emergency identification and emergency response to minimize response time while optimizing the dispatching of different types of first responders are provided. The system may include an automation system. The automation system may receive a plurality of data elements from a plurality of sensors. The automation system may extract a set of features from the plurality of data elements. The automation system may identify an emergency situation based on the set of features and a set of rules. The automation system may assess the priority of the emergency situation based on a set of data elements associated with the emergency situation and a set of policies. The automation system may select a responder in response to the identified emergency situation. The automation system may dispatch the selected responder to an area related to the identified emergency situation.

Abstract: An article conveyance system includes a controller and a conveyance device. The controller includes: a storage section storing information concerning a position of a housing section stored in a shelf; a housing-section retrieving section retrieving, based on the information concerning the position of the housing section, housing positions of a plurality of the housing sections, which are picking targets, in the shelf; a route generating section generating a route that makes rounds of positions of the housing sections retrieved by the housing-section retrieving section; and a transmitting section transmitting information concerning the generated route and the housing positions of the housing sections to the conveyance device.

Abstract: The picking system according to the present invention for executing operation assistance corresponding to an operation target relating to physical distribution receives an order designating a specific article, retrieves a first storage position at which the specific article is stored from shelf stock information, generates operation instruction data relating to a specific operation target for instructing to move the specific article from the first storage position to a second storage position, refers to operation station information and accesses the first storage position, retrieves a specific operation station capable of performing the specific operation target, transmits the operation instruction data to a terminal of the specific operation station, and transmits, to a movement device, conveyance instruction data instructing to convey a conveyance rack to the specific operation station.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, there is provided a control arrangement for maintenance of a collection of physical devices, the control arrangement including: a receiver configured to receive observation data, the observation data representative of physical conditions of each physical device of the collection of physical devices; a processor configured to compute respective maintenance output data of maintaining different combinations of the physical devices, based on the observation data; and a controller configured to determine the combination of the physical devices to be maintained based on a comparison of the computed respective maintenance output data, the controller further configured to control maintenance of the determined combination of the physical devices.

Abstract: An operation method is proposed to retain parking man-hours and reducing a cost by means of an automatic parking management system using carriers to transport a vehicle. The automatic parking management system, managing parking of vehicles, includes: a simulator that simulates a status of vehicles from boarding and drop-off areas to inside a parking place; and a resource management subsystem that manages a quantity of vehicle carriers; wherein a number of times of use of the parking place is predicted based on usage history of the parking place and the optimum quantity of vehicle carriers to satisfy aimed work efficiency can be calculated by inputting the predicted number of times of use and using the simulator. Additionally, a time of using the parking place for each user is predicted based on the user's parking place usage history, and a movement instruction to change a position of the vehicle within the parking place is issued in accordance with the prediction result.

Abstract: A management system includes: a management apparatus; and a sorting region where articles are sorted to a plurality of sorting destinations, and article data that causes each of articles to correspond to size information about the article, work data that causes one or more articles to be sorted that are sorted to the sorting destinations among the articles to correspond to an article count of the one article or each of the articles to be sorted, and size information about the sorting region are stored in a memory device of the management apparatus.

Abstract: Provided is a rack management system, including a processor and a storage unit. The storage unit stores information indicating positions of sections included in an area in which storage racks that store articles can be arranged. One of the storage racks can be arranged in each of the sections. At least one of the sections is surrounded by other adjacent sections without an aisle to convey the storage racks therebetween. The processor classifies the sections into sections assigned ranks indicating a degree of efficiency of an operation to convey the storage racks placed therein to a predetermined working area, and one or more empty sections into which, if there is a need to move one or more other storage racks in order to convey a storage rack placed in a given section, the other storage racks that were moved are placed, and outputs results of the classification.

Abstract: A parking management system and its control method for controlling a plurality of vehicles and efficiently managing a large-scale parking place are proposed. A parking management system for managing parking of a vehicle includes: a guiding system for automatically guiding the vehicle from a passenger space to a certain parking space; a control system for controlling the guiding system; and a management system for accepting a parking reservation of the vehicle from a terminal system and conveying reservation information and identification information of the vehicle to the control system, wherein after the vehicle arrives at the passenger space and a passenger gets off the vehicle, the control system causes the guiding system to guide the vehicle to, and park the vehicle at, the certain parking space on the basis of the reservation information and the identification information.

Abstract: An article conveyance system includes a controller and a conveyance device. The controller includes: a storage section storing information concerning a position of a housing section stored in a shelf; a housing-section retrieving section retrieving, based on the information concerning the position of the housing section, housing positions of a plurality of the housing sections, which are picking targets, in the shelf; a route generating section generating a route that makes rounds of positions of the housing sections retrieved by the housing-section retrieving section; and a transmitting section transmitting information concerning the generated route and the housing positions of the housing sections to the conveyance device.

Abstract: To provide a delivery system by which an unmanned aerial vehicle can be safely landed at a landing site, and the unmanned aerial vehicle can be landed at the desired site with high accuracy, a delivery system, comprising: an unmanned aerial vehicle that delivers a package to a delivery destination; a control server that manages delivery of the package; and an access point set in a vicinity of a landing site of the unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle is configured to: communicate with the control server through the access point when inside a predetermined range; and communicate with the control server through a telecommunications carrier network outside of the predetermined range.

Abstract: An operation method is proposed to retain parking man-hours and reducing a cost by means of an automatic parking management system using carriers to transport a vehicle. The automatic parking management system, managing parking of vehicles, includes: a simulator that simulates a status of vehicles from boarding and drop-off areas to inside a parking place; and a resource management subsystem that manages a quantity of vehicle carriers; wherein a number of times of use of the parking place is predicted based on usage history of the parking place and the optimum quantity of vehicle carriers to satisfy aimed work efficiency can be calculated by inputting the predicted number of times of use and using the simulator. Additionally, a time of using the parking place for each user is predicted based on the user's parking place usage history, and a movement instruction to change a position of the vehicle within the parking place is issued in accordance with the prediction result.

Abstract: A parking management system and its control method for controlling a plurality of vehicles and efficiently managing a large-scale parking place are proposed. A parking management system for managing parking of a vehicle includes: a guiding system for automatically guiding the vehicle from a passenger space to a certain parking space; a control system for controlling the guiding system; and a management system for accepting a parking reservation of the vehicle from a terminal system and conveying reservation information and identification information of the vehicle to the control system, wherein after the vehicle arrives at the passenger space and a passenger gets off the vehicle, the control system causes the guiding system to guide the vehicle to, and park the vehicle at, the certain parking space on the basis of the reservation information and the identification information.