This illustration shows the transportation flow through
a port container terminal. Import containers arriving
by ship move from the quay side on the left through
the central intermediate storage area to the railhead
and truck interface on the land side at the right.
Export containers move in the opposite direction.
Process Control
- provides full control on workflows
- synchronization of processes, e.g. unloading of a ship
by quay cranes, transportation to the yard by SCs,
transportation into the yard by RMG Data Radio Communication
- communication of transport order details to and from
SCs, rail cranes, quay cranes, tractors
- communication with checkers
Vessel Manager
- interface to ship stowage planning system, receiving
and processing of job requests
- planning of load/discharge operations, sequencing,
STS work strategies, work load balancing
- User control of load/discharge operations, start/stop
of operations, elimination of disturbances
- graphical user interface for planning and control
of ship/shore operations
Hinterlandmanager
- administer, optimize and assign of landside work
packages
Yard Control
- Balancing the utilization of yard capacity
- optimized stacking and positioning of load units
- Different types of yards, e.g. SC-yard, RMG-yard
- Handling of empties, reefers, dangerous goods, etc.
GateControl
- optimized schedule for external trucks
- minimization of truck handling times
- minimization of location changes for trucks
Equipment Control
Quay Crane:
- steering of double-trolley gantry cranes with interface
to PLC
- steering of tandem gantry cranes with interface to PLC
- control of quay crane operation under various working
strategies
- mobile container checking on handheld computers
- quay crane supervisor module for double-trolley
gantry crane
Stacking Crane:
- optimization and steering of yard stacking cranes
- synchronization if more than one crane works on block
Vehicle:
- optimization and steering of SCs, tractors and trailers
Rail Crane:
- optimization, synchronization and steering of
rail cranes
- representation of track and wagon occupation
Operations Control
- Visualization overall yard status, workload of equipment
and statistic data
- operator's access for human interaction and manual launch of transports
- real time control for optimization parameters
- remote control functionality for RMG operation at
landside
- comprehensive user rights configuration
