Re: Ada / Automation fellows

["Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>]

On 2015-03-27 22:59, slos wrote:
> Le vendredi 27 mars 2015 16:34:03 UTC+1, björn lundin a écrit :

> 
> In another thread you said that you would be interested to give a try at "Ada for Automation" 
>on a Raspberry Pi. Have you ?

No - I'm sorry - to much of life takes time ...

> In my memory you are working in this field :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_storage_and_retrieval_system
> And it is in my humble opinion where "Ada for Automation" would perfectly 
>fit since there is motion control, DB management, GUI...

I do work in that field - almost.
However we do not write the on-board software of the cranes/conveyor/agv
systems anymore. That business was taken over by the hardware vendors 20
years ago.
We tell them what to do instead.
 - pickup a pallet at location 123, put it at 345 and tell us when you
are done by reporting it as assignment 456

So we are more of a transport organizer/super-wiser than the actual doer.

Like a manager with some employees.
We also tell the truck driver where to pickup and deposit - or pick

Now - depending of the vendor/age of device the actual telegrams may
look as above - telegram based - or more detailed -
* move to pickup location (123) and report back as asm 456
* pickup a pallet and report back as asm 456
* move to deposit (345) location and report back as asm 456
* deposit the pallet and report back as asm 456


> As you already know Ada, you are more than likely able to tackle the automation tasks. 
> I can help !

Thanks. However the world changes quite fast and the current trend is

* ERP systems like SAP or JD Edwards says they can do the WMS as well
* Hardware vendors like Knapp or Dematic or Vanderlande says they can do
the WCS as well.

Those areas are what we live on and the competition gets worse every
year. Unfortunately I don't see our involvement with lower level of
automation increase - more than communication with goods-to-man
equipment on a socket level - unless we sell hardware too.
Which we do not currently - and never has. So I do not see that coming.

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Björn