Supervisory Control System

The supervisory control system, SuperFROG®, is responsible for work scheduling, traffic control and fleet management.

Work scheduling, assigning transport requests to vehicles, is based on a customized set of rules. They incorporate elements as vehicle availability, distances, layout and transport requirements. An in-plant production planning or warehouse management system (or SuperFROG®) can generate the transport requests.

As a traffic cop, SuperFROG® directs traffic, e.g deciding which vehicle has the right-of-way based on its’ priority. It also controls interaction between vehicles and automatic doors, elevators and signaling. The traffic cop function optimizes the total system, as vehicles do not have to wait for each other to pass or doors to open.

SuperFROG® is also in control of fleet management. This means a.o. ensuring timely recharging of the batteries and keeping log files of all system events and transportation requests. The log files can be retrieved for statistical processing at any time. Logistic concepts supported by SuperFROG® are: push-pull strategies; JIT; Time scheduling traffic (bus) and combinations of these including load-, route- and traffic dependent vehicle and system behaviour.