Automated system and method of automatically order-picking or consolidating articles

摘要

The invention relates to a method for automatically order-picking or consolidating articles of a wide variety of different formats and varieties, using the following steps: separating the stored articles, storing the articles in a rack bay, retrieving the articles and palletizing them. The method is predominantly characterized in that the articles which are to be order-picked for an order are put together in a rack bay already in the sequence which is necessary for palletizing. The invention also relates to an installation for implementing the method.

主权项

1. Process for automatic picking or consolidating of articles for a specific order, the picked or consolidated articles being of a variety of very different formats and assortments, said process including a stage for storing the articles in a rack bay, and further comprises the method steps of:
assigning a virtual storage zone of the rack bay to the order; dynamically adjusting a number of storage spaces in the rack bay to a loading quantity for a respective delivery package unit; collecting and then storing the articles at a sequence of locations next to each other in the rack bay, said sequence being the same in which the articles are to be placed one by one on pallets; retrieving the articles from the rack bay; and palletising the articles in said sequence on pallets.