A system and method that automatically monitors product use, such as the type and amount of agricultural and/or horticultural product stored in and dispensed from a cartridge over time and/or by geographic location. Monitored data are stored in memory such as a tag on the cartridge and may be transmitted to a server for storage, aggregation, and analysis. The cartridge may be authenticated before being authorized for use for the benefit of a current user in dispensing the product. The cartridge may be refilled after confirmation of authorization codes on the cartridge and refilling equipment tags. The cartridge may be calibrated automatically based on the bulk density or other parameter of the product in the cartridge. Data may be aggregated from a plurality of cartridges automatically. As-applied data from individual cartridges may be used to verify, independent of operator input, treated area coverage and product application rate.

A pharmaceutical management system includes: an IC tag attached to a pharmaceutical; a pharmaceutical storage box to store the pharmaceutical and read information of the IC tag; a controller to acquire the information of the IC tag from the pharmaceutical storage box and manage the pharmaceutical; and a pharmaceutical refrigerator to store the pharmaceutical storage box to refrigerate the pharmaceutical.

A processing system including a singulation system is disclosed. The singulation system includes a conveying system for moving objects to be sorted from a source area along a first direction, a detection system for detecting objects at the conveying system, and for selecting certain selected objects for removal from the conveying system, and a removal system for removing the certain selected objects from the conveying system for providing a singulated stream of objects.

A device is provided for storing elements, each element including a first wireless communication unit. The device includes at least two drawer units each including: a drawer including a bottom defining at least one location for receiving an element; for each location, at least one second wireless communication unit including an antenna having a radiation-zone field, each antenna having a first state in which the antenna is activated and a second state in which the antenna is deactivated; and a data-processing unit able to control the activation and deactivation of the antenna of each second communication unit according to a control law.

A substrate storage container management system includes a load port, configured to transfer a substrate into and out of one or more substrate storage containers, including an ID reader configured to read one or more entity IDs for the substrate storage containers, and one or more sensors configured to directly or indirectly detect one or more states of the substrate storage containers, an associator configured to associate the entity IDs read by the ID reader with one or more sensor values detected by the sensors; a database in which data associated by the associator is accumulated, and a data processor configured to analyze the data in the database and to output a state of a respective substrate storage container for each of the entity IDs.

Provided is an article transfer apparatus and article transfer method capable of autonomously loading or unloading an article by accurately checking a correct position in an article storage without a teaching process, the article transfer apparatus including a carriage body travelling along travel rails to transfer an article, and a position detection device mounted in the carriage body to detect position information related to a correct position from a detection target mounted in an article storage capable of storing the article in order to place the article at the correct position in the article storage where the article is to be stored.

A conveyor installation (100) includes conveyor sections (111), at least one switch (1111) for switching between the conveyor sections (111), a multiplicity of transportation units (110), which extend along the conveyor sections (111), a radio system (101) for spatially tracking the transportation units (110), and a control unit for controlling the conveyor system. (100), the radio system (101) including radio modules (1013) each assigned to a transportation unit (110) and at least one stationary radio device (1011), which are configured for exchanging radio signals, and a processing unit (109), wherein the processing unit (109) is configured to process the radio signals from the radio signals, and the current position of the transportation units (110) along the conveyor sections (111).

A processing system including a singulation system is disclosed. The singulation system includes a conveying system for moving objects to be sorted from a source area along a first direction, a detection system for detecting objects at the conveying system, and for selecting certain selected objects for removal from the conveying system, and a removal system for removing the certain selected objects from the conveying system for providing a singulated stream of objects.

A processing system including a singulation system is disclosed. The singulation system includes a conveying system for moving objects to be sorted from a source area along a first direction, a detection system for detecting objects at the conveying system, and for selecting certain selected objects for removal from the conveying system, and a removal system for removing the certain selected objects from the conveying system for providing a singulated stream of objects.

The invention relates to a roller testing device for a roller adapter of an overhead conveyor system comprising a drive unit for rotatably driving at least one carrying roller of the roller adapter, a sensor unit for capturing a measured value correlating with a state of wear of a pivot bearing of the at least one carrying roller and an evaluation unit for determining the state of wear on the basis of the measured value.