JPS5636367A - Automatic sorting and carrying-out control unit of ingot - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To automatically and efficiently convey and handle ingots without causing entry of dissimilar materials by determining conveyance schedule and performing conveyance based on sorting reference contents and conveyance equipment information.

CONSTITUTION: The command to be emitted this time from the downstream side of conveyance equipment is determined from the ingot information of a cutting schedule memory device 3 and an ingot tracking memory device 7 and the storage contents of a carrying-out equipment state memory device 6. The contents of the determination of the command are such that first the carrying-out route is determined from the tracking information of the ingots of each strand and classifying levels then whether reversing machines 15 are to be reversed or not, whether the transverse feed pushers of the transverse feed conveyance line are to be operated or not and whether the take-out setting of the ingots in a longitudinal feed conveyance line 12 is to be outputted or not are determined. Next, when the carrying-out equipment operated in conformity with the determination, the jam, etc. of the carrying-out are decided and when it is decided that there is no jam, the determination contents are outputted to a carrying-out sequence control unit 8 to start the conveyance operation of the same one lot ingots on the reversing machines 15, transverse feed conveyance line 13 and longitudinal feed conveyance line 12.

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