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Subject: Re: warehouse automation in ADA? robots?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:14:17 +0100
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Den 2019-02-25 kl. 23:32, skrev Rabican:
> is ada used at all in robots and warehouse automation?
> 

Robots, I don't know.
Warehouse Automation, not very much when looking at
low level control of machinery.

I've been in that business for 20 years and never heard of
any vendor (Vanderlande/Knapp/Daifuku/Dematic/Swisslog ) whatever to use 
Ada in their systems. Most of them use Siemens PLC.

one usually divides a warehouse system stack in different layers
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP/IFS/Axapta/Navision/Movex)
       The system to place orders in - in this context

WMS - Warehoue Management System (Astro/Manhattan/Red Prarie/SAP WMS)
       The system to divide order to pick routes and transports

WCS - Warehouse Control System
       The system plan and carry out transports in automatic equipment.
       Usally the WMS manages the forklift drivers

       Sattmate and vendor specific ones (All
       companies above has one but Sattmate is the only (or one of the
       few) non-vendor Control system that I know of (in Europe)

MFC/PLC usally Siemens PLC but every vendor has their own protocol and
       rules how to program the machines


When it comes to WCS, that is the layer that controls the traffic, and 
priorities which tote/pallet whatever to move, there is one system 
written entirely in Ada. Sattmate.
However that is being transferred to c#

It is really sad that there are not more Ada presence in this world

-- 
Björn