{"id":85,"date":"2026-09-16T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.informstorage.com\/?product=wcs"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T09:17:25","slug":"wcs","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.informstorage.com\/product\/wcs\/","title":{"rendered":"WCS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.informstorage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/yinfei-catalog-wcs-dashboard.webp\" alt=\"iC+ WCS dashboard\" class=\"wp-image-491\" width=\"1920\" height=\"968\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Product features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Visual equipment and task monitoring.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>System-wide task allocation and dynamic route planning.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Automatic storage-location allocation where enabled.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Analysis of key equipment and multiple communication interfaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Product functions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Function<\/th><th>Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Equipment and systems<\/td><td>Connects four-way shuttles, stacker cranes, mother-child shuttles, lifts, conveyors and rail-guided vehicles with upstream systems such as WMS.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Scheduling and control<\/td><td>Equipment onboarding, dispatch, manual control, parking, routing, exception handling, charging and monitoring.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Platform functions<\/td><td>User, role and menu management, storage locations, containers, materials, maps, tasks, equipment queries, exceptions and logs.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Algorithms and engines<\/td><td>Path, scheduling, storage-location and dynamic-resource analysis, with module, algorithm and visualization engines.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Interfaces and storage<\/td><td>Supports Netty, sockets, web services, TCP\/IP and OPC. Database options shown include MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>System modules<\/td><td>Includes iC+ 4S for four-way shuttles, iC+ SMS for mother-child shuttle systems and iC+ MLS for multi-shuttle systems.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Application modes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Mode<\/th><th>Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Black box<\/td><td>For standard automated warehouses where WCS allocates storage locations.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gray box<\/td><td>For standard automated warehouses where storage-location allocation is handled outside WCS.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>White box<\/td><td>Lets customers manage individual equipment through the system without connecting directly to each machine or PLC.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":491,"template":"","product_cat":[30,4],"class_list":["post-85","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-ic-wcs","product_cat-software-systems"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.informstorage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.informstorage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.informstorage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.informstorage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.informstorage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.informstorage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}