DE8618894U1 - Self-driving order picking terminal - Google Patents

Description

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The invention is directed to a device for order picking of goods from shelves, in particular from flow rack systems.

It is known that an order picker walks past corresponding storage shelves after an order slip and removes individual goods according to the orders, fills them into a carton or another container and finally makes the goods assembled in this way available to the customer. It is also known instead of the order slip the order picker the required information via a fixed display or e.g. at the order picking vehicle stand to provide.

The known solutions are still comparatively confusing, because the order picker himself first selects the corresponding information on the stationary display Must look for space on the shelf where the article is located, or in other cases the order picker no Vehicle or trolley for attaching the display is available.

The object of the invention is to create a solution with which greatly simplifies order picking. At a

Device of the type mentioned above will do this because ^ achieved by that they are in the field of vision of a picking person on the shelf arranged, automatically on the shelf traversing terminal with a display unit that shows the goods to be removed, whose quantity and position on the shelf shows the user is equipped.

By the invention it is achieved that the independently moving terminal the order picker immediately the Regalbzw. Channel line indicates, by the fact that, for example, computer-controlled immediately drives in front of the line. The order picker thus has more time for the actual picking activity, at the same time the error rate increases decreased.

The information can come from a warehouse management computer, which sends it via a wireless data transmission link feeds to the terminal, as the invention also provides. These are in particular

re around an infrared data transmission facility.

Further advantages and features of the invention emerge from the further subclaims. So a printer can be provided that is used to print labels or package inserts.

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The device for receiving containers at the movable terminal also simplifies the handling of the invention The picker then needs in each case only the products directly, for example in a carton einzuhe ¹ -ben.

A weighing device enables z. B. with knowledge of the weight of the individual articles and their number, which are to be packed, to inform the warehouse management computer by a weight return message whether the necessary number has really been packed. If this is not the case, via the wireless data transfer ^ then treks this at the terminal the picker _t be it visually or acoustically, are displayed.

The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to the drawing, for example. This shows in the only one Figure a simplified, three-dimensional representation of the invention Contraption.

The device, generally designated 1 in the figure, consists of a flow rack 2 on its front side a chassis 4 forming a picking table its own drive, not shown, is arranged to be movable.

On the chassis there is a removable terminal 5 with, for example a keyboard 6, a display 7, a Bar code pen 8, a printer 9 and an infrared transmitting / receiving system 10 arranged.

The corresponding I belongs to the infrared receiver / transmitter 10

transmitting transmitter / receiver part 11, which e.g. at a corner 3

of the flow rack 2 is arranged and for remote data %

transmission is used, which is indicated by the double arrow 12; is.

This infrared data transmission via the elements 10 and 11 is with a computer, e.g. as a warehouse management computer 13 and is thus able to pass on the information coming from there or going there.

The chassis 4 is designed in the example shown so that it is able to hold a box or the like Carry out receptacle 14 into which the order picker can sort the goods to be removed.

Not shown is the possibility that the chassis 4 is equipped with a counting or weighing device at the same time is, in turn, their measured values to the terminal 5 j

s transmits this information via the infrared data transmission line the position calculator 13 available, below the route can still be a transport

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means, for example a belt conveyor 15, with which the assembled carton 14 can be further conveyed can .

The mode of operation of the device is as follows:

via the warehouse management computer 13 and the data transmission path 10 to 12, information is transmitted to the terminal 5 as to the amount of individual parts taken from the shelf 1 should be. The drive then automatically moves to the line in which the article is located. That The display gives the order picker further information. Once the removal process has ended, this is reported back, for example, via the weighing or counting device can be, the chassis automatically moves to the next required line and gives the order picker the other information and immediately. Once the removal process, i.e. the order has been completed, the printer can either an instruction leaflet can be printed out or labels or the like. A full box 14 is then placed on belt conveyor 15 parked and promoted.

Of course, the described exemplary embodiment of the invention can still be modified in many respects without departing from the basic idea. For example, the chassis to be designed so that it can _t throw a front carton 14 on the conveyor belt 15 and the like. More.

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Claims (4)

■■■ · · · · «■« ■ · 1 I ■■■ ■ ··· 331 * 11 Il t · ■ · ■ PATENT LAWYERS MEINKE AND DABRINGHAUS! APPROVED BY THE EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEYS MANDATAIRES EN BREVETS BJROPEE DlPU-ING. J. MEINKE f DIPL .-! NG. W. DABRINGHAUS 4600 DORTMUND !, June 14th at 8 WESTENHELLWEG 67 TELEPHONE (0231) 145071 TELEGRAM DOPAT Dortmund TELEX 822 7328 pat d TELEFAX (0231) 147670 FILE NO .: 5/5 541 Applicant: proLogistik, Gesellschaft für Information and control systems mbH, Emil-Figge-Str. 4600 Dortmund 50 entitlements: 1. Device - »for picking goods from shelves, in particular from flow rack systems, characterized in that that they are arranged on the shelf (2) with a person in the field of vision of a person performing the order picking, Terminal (5), which moves automatically on the shelf (2), with a display unit (7) that shows the goods to be removed, whose amount and position on the shelf (2) shows the user is equipped. 2. Device according to claim 1,
characterized, that the usable terminal (5) with a wireless data transmission unit (10) is equipped. I I I I I * MM 11 * ■ I If f) l | 111 I ■ »11111 111 »* IJ Il I 1 ? »T»! I » ill M * Kl · 2 ¹ » R. 3. Device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized, that the terminal (5) has its own drive is prepared. 4. Apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that that the terminal (5) with a keyboard (6) for input of additional data or acknowledgments and / or equipped with a bar code pen (0) and / or with a printer (9) is. 5. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that that the terminal (5) with travel drive with a receptacle (4) for container (14) for bringing in the items to be picked Goods is equipped. 6. Apparatus according to claim 5,
characterized, that the container receptacle (4) is equipped with its own weighing device. 7. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that M i * I Il M ItI «* * III Il Il Il 4 * I ** I Il Il i ill • 4 · t · · It * lllllll ··· ■ iatii ι ι ICtI 1 «C (Ct I r Cf (t e itct err cc ι t < tet tit et tr et r f CCC CCtI ice cc t LfOe c_i that in the area of the ferry route a conveyor belt (15) or _{4 is provided} for receiving the containers (14) equipped with the granulated goods.