De'Carte™ Traffic Control System

Meeting today's challanges in AGV control systems

De’Carte is a complete AGV control system that easily integrates with inventory and production control systems and includes a Layout Builder, Traffic Control, AGV Communications, I/O Event Handling, Order Assignment & Scheduling, and Graphical User Interface.

From a systems standpoint

De’Carte provides easy, fast AGV routing and traffic control of even complex layouts
De’Carte is an open system design based on standard Windows platforms and devices
De’Carte utilizes industry standard hardware, common off-the-shelf components, and industry-standard communications protocols
De’Carte provides a user-friendly real time graphic interface
De’Carte and Amerden support virtually all AGV types and manufacturers
De’Carte is based on two decades of AGV and material handling experience with leading companies around the world
De’Carte is designed with system validation in mind – to meet appropriate regulatory requirements

From a business standpoint

De’Carte is simple to deploy and provides rapid payback
De’Carte provides 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
De’Carte is based on two decades of AGV and material handling experience with leading companies around the world
De’Carte provides easy integration with inventory and production systems

Meeting the AGV control challange

The optimal design and performance of an Automatic Guided Vehicle system can affect a company’s product delivery and availability, customer satisfaction, profit, and more. But often, existing systems based on proprietary components and software platforms hold users hostage to older, less advantageous hardware and technologies.

Upgrading or retrofitting older systems - or installing a new leading-edge system – with De’Carte software can provide the flexibility to advance current and future business and process changes. De’Carte helps ensure backward and forward compatibility. It is simple to deploy.

De’Carte is the latest, most advanced generation of control software for AGV systems. It operates on PC compatible platforms under Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating systems. De’Carte is based on two decades of experience controlling numerous diverse AGV systems. A rich set of capabilities and features designed into De’Carte allows it to be adapted from the smallest stand alone AGV system to the most demanding high volume material handling applications.

Why De'Carte is the best choice

De’Carte is based on standard Windows platform, ensuring current and future compability with off-the- shelf hardware and software.
De’Carte is implemented in C#, utilizing state of the art object oriented software development techniques on the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET platform.
De’Carte utilizes ODBC for compatibly and simple integration with virtually any database.
De’Carte supports virtually all databases, including Microsoft Access, SQL Server, and Oracle.
De’Carte easily integates with other systems using standard protocols.
A wide range of 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 handheld wireless devices.
De’Carte employs industry-standard wireless communications.
De’Carte supports standard 802.11x wireless LANs for high performance vehicle communications. De’Carte can be integrated with any existing wireless LAN infrastructure.

De’Carte simplifies and expedites creation of even complex AGV routing layouts.
De’Carte’s Microsoft Visio-based layout defintion system provides an easy to understand and extremely useful visual tool for defining the AGV layout and traffic control. With De’Carte, you can easily modify the layout to adapt to any changing and future needs.
De’Carte promotes high performance tracking of mission steps.
De’Carte provides a real time graphical user interface for display of AGV layout and movement and for operator control and interaction.
Amerden can easily and inexpensively customize De’Carte to meet specific business, layout, systems, vehicle, or other needs.
Virtually unlimited options, enhancements, and modifications are possible, including an optional in-process inventory system that allows tracking of product movement throughout the AGV system. De’Carte can be localized to meet language and cultural preferences.
De’Carte supports virtually all AGV manufacturers and types and can be tailored to specialized, custom AGVs and navigation systems.

De'Carte specifications

Minimum required hardware
1.0 GHz PC compatible with 512MB RAM and Network Adapter

Operation System
Microsoft Windows™ 2003 Workstation or Windows XP SP2

Supported Databases
Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL, Oracle