WCS

iC+ Warehouse Control System sits between WMS and equipment-level controls. It schedules and coordinates automated material-handling equipment so that tasks and handoffs run in sequence.

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Product Details

iC+ Warehouse Control System sits between WMS and equipment-level controls. It schedules and coordinates automated material-handling equipment so that tasks and handoffs run in sequence.

Product features

Visual equipment and task monitoring.
System-wide task allocation and dynamic route planning.
Automatic storage-location allocation where enabled.
Analysis of key equipment and multiple communication interfaces.

Product functions

Function	Description
Equipment and systems	Connects four-way shuttles, stacker cranes, mother-child shuttles, lifts, conveyors and rail-guided vehicles with upstream systems such as WMS.
Scheduling and control	Equipment onboarding, dispatch, manual control, parking, routing, exception handling, charging and monitoring.
Platform functions	User, role and menu management, storage locations, containers, materials, maps, tasks, equipment queries, exceptions and logs.
Algorithms and engines	Path, scheduling, storage-location and dynamic-resource analysis, with module, algorithm and visualization engines.
Interfaces and storage	Supports Netty, sockets, web services, TCP/IP and OPC. Database options shown include MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle.
System modules	Includes iC+ 4S for four-way shuttles, iC+ SMS for mother-child shuttle systems and iC+ MLS for multi-shuttle systems.

Application modes

Mode	Description
Black box	For standard automated warehouses where WCS allocates storage locations.
Gray box	For standard automated warehouses where storage-location allocation is handled outside WCS.
White box	Lets customers manage individual equipment through the system without connecting directly to each machine or PLC.