Alternative Allocations

Supposing reasonable answers which the system engineer builds a number of alternative allocations. Note that performance and function are assigned to various generic system parts in each allocation.

Allocation 1. A sorting operator is place and training at the sorting station location. He or She study the box and places it into an appropriate bin.

The Allocation 1 represents a purely manual but effective, nevertheless solutions to the CLSS problem. The primary engineering parts is people the sorting operator. Someone performs all sorting functions. In Some documentation in the form of a table relating identification number to procedural description and bin location for operator training might be needed. Thus this allocation uses only the documentation and people components.

Allocation 2.  A controller and bar code reader are placed at the sorting station. The Bar code output is passed to a programmable controller which controls a technical shunting mechanism the shunt slides the box to the suitable bin.

For allocation 2 hardware programmable controls, shunt hardware, bar code reader, etc. software for the programmable controller and bar code reader and database a look-up table that relates box ID with bin location parts are used to give a fully automated solution. It is like in which each of these parts may have other documentation and corresponding manuals adding another parts.

Allocation 3. A controller and bar code reader are placed at the sorting station. Bar code output is passed to a robot arm which grasps moves and boxes it to the appropriate bin location.

The Allocation three makes use of 1 macro element that is the robot. Such as allocation 2 this allocation uses software, hardware, a documentation and database as engineering parts. The robot is a macro element of CLSS and itself contains a group of engineering parts.

Through examining the 3 alternative allocations for CLSS it should be obvious that the similar function can be allocated to various parts. In order to choose the most effectual allocation a set of trade-off criteria should be applied to every alternative.