A control system includes a moving object, an acquisition unit, and a control unit. Equipment a state of which is changeable is installed on the moving object and the moving object is movable by unmanned driving. The acquisition unit acquires work information that is at least one of personal information on a worker who engages in work to the moving object, and content information indicating a work content. The control unit uses the acquired work information to change the state of the equipment.

There is provided a technique that includes at least one load port capable of mounting a substrate storage container that stores a substrate, a controller configured to be capable of performing: a switching control to switch a first function of using the at least one load port to load or unload the substrate storage container and a second function of mounting the substrate storage container on the at least one load port; and an erroneous operation prevention control to execute an erroneous operation prevention operation to the substrate storage container arranged on the at least one load port according to use modes associated with the first function and the second function; and a process chamber configured to process the substrate.

A method for operating a palletizing device for palletizing piece goods, is suitable for operating a palletizing device including at least one control device and at least one display device, wherein it is displayed to a user on the display device in the response to a stop of the palletizing device, which piece goods may/must be removed from the process and/or which piece goods may/must not be removed from the process. The palletizing device for palletizing piece goods includes a conveying device with a conveying element for conveying piece goods and a depositing table, wherein the conveying device includes a rotating device for rotating the piece goods. A control device and a display device are furthermore provided, wherein the control device is suitable and formed to carry out the above-described method.

A controller for a linear drive system includes compensation of a reference signal as the mover approaches a commanded position along a track. The compensation value is added once as the vehicle approaches the commanded position, adjusting the reference signal. This compensation allows the controller to resolve to a zero reference signal at the same time the vehicle reaches the commanded position. The amount of compensation required may be automatically determined for a particular vehicle to reduce or eliminate overshoot as the vehicle approaches a station. Initially, no compensation is provided and the controller monitors settling error as the vehicle approaches a station. The compensation value is then incremented and the controller again monitors settling error as the vehicle approaches a station. The controller compares the new settling error to the prior settling error and adjusts the compensation value accordingly.

An information storage stores operation information regarding operations of an operating part group including a load port group, a processing unit group, and a transport mechanism. The operation information includes processing result information indicating a result of substrate processing performed by a substrate processing apparatus, and operational status information indicating temporal breakdowns of operational statuses of the substrate processing apparatus and operating parts included in the operating part group. The display controller displays the processing result information while arranging it according to an arrangement item selected from a predetermined arrangement item including an arbitrary operating period of the substrate processing apparatus. The display controller classifies the operational status information into broadly classified operational statuses and into specifically classified operational statuses and displays the classified operational status information. This enables an operator to easily recognize detailed operational statuses of the operating parts in association with the result of substrate processing.

A communication apparatus includes a wide-area wireless communicator to transmit and receive information to and from a transport vehicle via a wireless access point through wide-area wireless communication, a short-range wireless communicator to transmit and receive information to and from a communication device through short-range wireless communication with a communication range narrower than a communication range of the wide-area wireless communication, and a controller configured or programmed to convert the information received by the wide-area wireless communicator from wide-area wireless communication information into short-range wireless communication information, and output the short-range wireless communication information to the short-range wireless communicator, and convert the information received by the short-range wireless communicator from short-range wireless communication information into wide-area wireless communication information, and output the wide-area wireless communication information to the wide-area wireless communicator.

Techniques and solutions are provided for encoding information for sets, including sets whose elements are arranged in a hierarchy. Values are defined for different levels of a hierarchy, where the values increase or decrease from a root of the hierarchy. A flattened representation of the hierarchy is generated by multiplying element values by a level value for a level at which a respective element is located. Values for parent and leaf nodes are defined, and a flattened representation of the hierarchy is generated by multiple elements values by the parent value or the leaf node value, depending on whether a respective elements is a parent or leaf node. Quantity values for a set of elements are encoded by adding a quantity of a given element to a value assigned to elements of a set definition that are present in a set.

A system includes one or more movers configured to move along a track of an industrial automation system and a computing device. The computing device receives data associated with the movers as the movers move around the track. The data includes a first amount of time for at least one of the movers to move between two stations disposed along the track, a second amount of time for the at least one mover to settle at a station, a third amount of time for a respective robot at the station to prepare to perform a process, and a fourth amount of time for the respective robot to perform the process. The computing device identifies throughput degradation based on the first amount of time, the second amount of time, the third amount of time, or the fourth amount of time, or any combination thereof.

A method includes defining a sensor layout of a digital twin based on sensor parameters and routing control locations of the digital twin. The method includes simulating a manufacturing routine of a plurality of pallets and a plurality of workstations based on one or more pallet parameters associated with the plurality of pallets and one or more workstation parameters associated with the plurality of workstations and calculating, for each routing control location from among the one or more routing control locations, a transient production value and a steady state production value based on the manufacturing routine. The method includes iteratively adjusting the sensor layout of the digital twin until each transient production value is less than or equal to a threshold transient production value and each steady state production value is less than or equal to a threshold steady state production value.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for manufacturing lines are provided, particularly to monitoring the status of a manufacturing line using smart movers with RF transceivers. A mover for a manufacturing line may include at least one sensor configured to generate sensor data and a mover RF transceiver configured to transmit a mover signal associated with the sensor data to an anchor RF transceiver of a first anchor point of a plurality of anchor points. The mover is configured to move along a track of a manufacturing line. The mover may carry a load along the manufacturing line from one station to another. Multiple anchor points are arranged along the track. As the mover moves along the track, the mover pairs with an anchor point and transmits one or more mover signals to the anchor points. The mover signals include data about mover health or mover load health.