Automatic Material Handling System (AMHS) for Leading Pharmaceutical Company, UK

Business Case

• The project was to develop an application to monitor automated material handling system (AMHS) within its plant
• System would track movement, record dispensed and processed products from one tablet manufacturing operation stage to next

Systems and Tools

• ASP.NET MVC 3, AngularJS, Jquery, Node.js
• C#, .NET4.0, Entity Framework 4.0
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• SQL Server 2012

Project Scope

• Implement an interface AHMS with various material handling equipment via dedicated supervisor PLC that will be used to control the routing of the trolleys
• The system must be robust to control all equipment and their data transfer within the factory premises
• Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV’s) or ‘trolleys’ suspended from an overhead monorail, acting as fork-lifts, transfer the bins or pallets between storage locations