Logistics Facility Project File Data Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
The planning and implementation of goods logistics facilities often require extensive data collection and duplication, leading to inefficiencies and potential errors, particularly during the life cycle of the facility, where data collected during planning needs to be re-entered for further development phases.
Innovation Solution
A method involving the creation of a logistics facility project file that stores data on design, geometric, and functional properties of components such as buildings, driving areas, infrastructure elements, and transport devices, allowing for simulation, optimization, and visualization of the facility, thereby reducing data duplication and enhancing efficiency throughout the facility's life cycle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If data describing components of the goods logistics facility are collected and stored during planning, then the planning process can be completed, but the data must be re-entered during further development phases leading to data duplication and inefficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by collecting and storing all relevant data describing the goods logistics facility components during the initial planning phase in a structured data structure. This pre-collected data is then reused throughout the facility's life cycle for simulation, optimization, visualization, and further development, eliminating the need for repeated data collection and re-entry in subsequent phases.
2Reliability
If extensive data collection is performed during planning, then comprehensive facility information is available, but data duplication and potential errors increase during subsequent phases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by creating a digital data structure that replicates the physical goods logistics facility's components and their interrelationships. This digital copy contains all necessary data and can be reused across multiple phases without manual re-entry, reducing errors while maintaining data comprehensiveness. The data structure serves as a virtual model that can be referenced throughout the facility's life cycle.
3Productivity
If data are reused throughout the facility life cycle, then efficiency is improved, but the initial data collection and structuring effort increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing a multi-functional data structure that serves multiple purposes throughout the facility's life cycle. The same structured data is used for planning, simulation, optimization, visualization, and further development phases. This universal data structure eliminates the need for separate data collection efforts in each phase, making the initial structuring effort worthwhile despite its complexity.
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AI summary
A method for constructing a goods logistics facility and to a corresponding goods logistics facility. The method can include: creating a logistics facility project file associated with the goods logistics facility, inserting and storing data describing properties of at least one of the following components of the goods logistics facility, in the logistics facility project file, and realizing the goods logistics facility using the data stored in the logistics facility project file, wherein at least one measure influencing the goods logistics facility with regard to its design, geometric and/or functional properties or monitoring with regard to a state of the goods logistics facility is carried out during the life cycle of the goods logistics facility using the data stored in the logistics facility project file.