Background:

The emergence and development of warehouses is a result of post-World War II production and technological developments. In the early 1950s, high-bay warehouses using bridge-type stacking cranes appeared in the United States. Driver-operated high-bay warehouses using aisle-type stacking cranes appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1963, the United States pioneered the use of computing control technology in high-bay warehouses, establishing the first computing-controlled high-bay warehouse.

High-bay warehouses, with their high space utilization, robust loading and unloading capabilities, and computing-controlled management that facilitates modern enterprise management, have become an indispensable warehousing technology for logistics and production management, and are gaining increasing attention from businesses.

Project Description:

The end-user is a well-known high-bay warehousing company. Its automated warehouse (AS) is a complicate warehouse system consisting of high-bay racks, rail-guided stacker cranes, inbound and outbound pallet conveyors, a size detection and barcode reading system, a communications system, an automatic control system, a computer monitoring system, a computer management system, and other auxiliary equipment such as cable trays and distribution cabinets, pallets, adjustment platforms, and steel structure platforms. Utilizing state-of-the-art integrated logistics concepts and employing advanced control, bus, communications, and information technologies, these devices coordinate their operations to carry out inbound and outbound operations.

Case storage and retrieval are performed by high-speed robots. Multiple robots can move horizontally and vertically on the rack rails at high speed, operating simultaneously at each storage location without interfering with each other. Case storage and retrieval commands are issued by a host computer. To ensure stable and storage operation, the smart warehouse will request high quality and performance of on a industrial computer.

1. Powerful computing performance is required to ensure real-time issuance of work instructions and data feedback;

2. Rich I/O interface and expansion is required to accommodate external function modules;

3. High environmental adaptability is required to ensure stable 24/7 operation under complex working conditions.

What Taicenn do?

According to the application requirements, Taicenn offers an embedded fanless PC model TBOX-2E15W. This Box PC is built to thrive at the edge, and powered by the Quad-Core Intel Elkhart Lake J6412 processor, which have super high cost performance for industrial applications, TBOX-2E15 offers a unique combination of features, long supply, power and connectivity, making it an ideal Industrial IoT controller, embedded systems or automation controller. 

Rich I/O Interfaces and Strong Expandability

Its advanced industrial design includes a DC terminal with a wide DC 9~36V range power input. To connect TBOX-2E15 with all kinds of devices in the smart warehouse, it can take control and communication of whole data in this solution, as it designs with rich I/O interfaces that includes 3x USB 3.0 & 5x USB 2.0 ports, 6x DB9 RS232(optional 1x RS485), optionally 1x GPIO (if requested), 2x HDMI, 2x GbE LAN ports, together with 1x M.2 and 1x Mini-PCIe expansion slots.

Sustained and Stable Operation

The fanless design and housing supports 24/7 continuous operation within a wide temperature range of -20 to +70°C.

At last:

With labor costs constantly rising, reducing costs and achieving automated management have become important strategic issues for companies. Intelligent warehouse management and cost control have become key factors affecting product market competitiveness. TAICENN, is a leading global provider and manufacturer of industrial panel PC, industrial display and industrial& embedded PC products. We deliver our industrial computing hardware products into various industrial fields, and aim to increase the efficient of smart factories.