Manufacturing installation and processing operations
First Claim
1. An arrangement for tracking articles, the arrangement comprising at least one steerable vehicle, said steerable vehicle having a determinable absolute position, said vehicle arranged to carry articles between storage positions at an installation, position-sensing means located on the vehicle and arranged to sense the absolute position of the vehicle, and a CPU provided with a database recording the storage positions of the articles, the CPU being arranged to update the database with new storage positions of the articles in response to signals from the position-sensing means.
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Abstract
The absolute position of a vehicle (V) transporting articles between sites (SS) at an installation, e.g. stations of a steel works, is determined by satellite navigation signal and logged on a CPU with a database to ensure that the intended articles (SR) are processed on different sites as required.
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16 Claims
- 1. An arrangement for tracking articles, the arrangement comprising at least one steerable vehicle, said steerable vehicle having a determinable absolute position, said vehicle arranged to carry articles between storage positions at an installation, position-sensing means located on the vehicle and arranged to sense the absolute position of the vehicle, and a CPU provided with a database recording the storage positions of the articles, the CPU being arranged to update the database with new storage positions of the articles in response to signals from the position-sensing means.
- 14. A method of tracking articles at a steelworks, wherein the articles are stored in storage areas and which are moved between said storage areas at the steelworks by a steerable vehicle, which has a determinable absolute position, a CPU having a database containing stored positions of the articles, the method including the step of updating the database with new positions of stored articles in response to signals from a position-sensing means located on and arranged to sense the absolute position of a vehicle.
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