Software controls automated guided vehicle systems.
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De'Carte AGV Control Software, based on Windows platform, provides AGV routing and traffic control of material handling layouts with real-time graphic interface. System supports same day delivery and can reduce staffing needs. Software is compatible with Microsoft Access, SQL Server, and Oracle. Applications include pharmaceutical, chemical, food and beverage, and discrete manufacturing.
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New Rusco De'Carte(TM) Advanced AGV Control Software Improves Operation and Efficiency of New and Retrofit Automated Guided Vehicle Systems
In initial production application tests, retrofitted AGV systems typically achieved a 40% increase in efficiency and significant reduction of number of vehicles necessary to perform the same tasks.
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA -- Rusco, Inc. has developed and introduced its new De'Carte AGV Control Software. De'Carte is an open control system based on standard Windows platforms and devices, employing industry standard hardware, common off-the-shelf components, and industry-standard communications protocols. De'Carte provides easy, fast AGV routing and traffic control of even complex material handling layouts with its user-friendly real-time graphic interface. It can be employed with virtually all manufacturers' and all types of automated guided vehicles. Its primary areas of application include pharmaceutical, chemical, food and beverage, paper, and discrete manufacturing industries. In addition, it offers particular benefits for those applications involved with logistics, distribution, and warehousing, with special features beneficial to regulaled industries involved in compliance and validation issues.
De'Carte is ideal for system upgrades and retrofits, new AGV systems, and for integration by AGV manufacturers into their products.
De'Carte is simple to deploy and provides rapid payback. In operation, it supports high performance tracking of mission steps - resulting in an excellent, highly efficient planning tool for warehousing, inventory and production control, and staffing. Under De'Carte control, product is picked and delivered rapidly and with better efficiency. In operation, a De'Carte based system can drastically reduce order fulfillment time, even promote support for same day delivery, and helps to reduce staffing needs. De'Carte is designed with system validation in mind - to meet appropriate regulatory requirements in industries such as pharmaceuticals and food processing.
With its standard hardware and Windows platform, De'Carte provides easy integration with inventory and production systems.
De'Carte is based on Rusco's two decades of AGV and materials handling experience with leading companies around the world. It is implemented in C#, utilizing state of the art object oriented software development techniques on the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET platform. Major De'Carte control processes are implemented as Windows service processes, which enhance security and allow the AGV control system to be integrated with a user's server environment. De'Carte is compatible and easily integrated with virtually all databases, such as Microsoft Access, SQL Server, and Oracle. De'Carte's communications is based on Microsoft standard MSMQ protocol, easily interfaced with networks and other systems. De'Carte processes and operator interfaces can easily be distributed over a network using wireless communications. A wide range of available MSMQ connectors allows integration with diverse systems ranging from sophisticated corporate-level business systems, manufacturing execution systems, warehousing and distribution systems, SCADA systems, PLC networks, to even handheld wireless devices.
Rusco can easily and inexpensively customize De'Carte to meet specific business, layout, systems, vehicle, or other needs.
Rusco, Inc. is a rapidly growing company that provides technical systems and process integration solutions. Its staff is comprised of highly trained specialists who bring many years of experience and expertise to customers' projects. Rusco helps its customers improve their systems and operations with proprietary products, software, and services in order to help them become better, more profitable companies.
For more information, contact Anne Stephenson at Rusco, Inc., 450 South Gravers Road, Suite 220, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462; telephone 215-576-7844; fax 215-576-8641. www.ruscoservices.com
