EP3682979A1 - Procédé et installation de tri permettant de trier des pièces à trier pourvue de séparateurs à décharge pouvant être commandés de manière à sortir les pièces - Google Patents

Procédé et installation de tri permettant de trier des pièces à trier pourvue de séparateurs à décharge pouvant être commandés de manière à sortir les pièces Download PDF

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EP3682979A1
EP3682979A1 EP19152841.3A EP19152841A EP3682979A1 EP 3682979 A1 EP3682979 A1 EP 3682979A1 EP 19152841 A EP19152841 A EP 19152841A EP 3682979 A1 EP3682979 A1 EP 3682979A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
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  • the invention relates to a method and a sorting system for sorting sorting items.
  • Post and parcel sorting systems in which letters and / or large letters or parcels are processed, are sold, for example, by Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics GmbH and Solystic.
  • sorting items letters, parcels or consignments (hereinafter referred to as sorting items) are separated from a supply on a separating device (substance input), e.g. a stack, singly, transported by a conveyor system along a conveyor path and at several sorting exits, realized for example by sorting switches or cross belt sorters, the respective target locations, e.g. Stacking compartments of a mail sorting system.
  • a separating device e.g. a stack
  • singly transported by a conveyor system along a conveyor path and at several sorting exits, realized for example by sorting switches or cross belt sorters, the respective target locations, e.g. Stacking compartments of a mail sorting system.
  • the sorting items are sorted into the target locations during a sorting run.
  • a variable target code is assigned to each target point for the sorting run by means of a sorting control in accordance with the sorting logic or in accordance with the sorting process.
  • a variable target code is also assigned to the sorting pieces, which are then sorted according to a target location.
  • destinations can also have the same destination code, for example for destinations with a known high volume of mail. This offers z. B. on if the capacity of a destination is not sufficient to accommodate all the sorting pieces for this destination code.
  • the capacity of the target locations is exhausted after a certain number of sorting pieces and the target location must be emptied or otherwise made available again. This can be done, for example, by changing the container (empty to full), but this is always associated with a certain amount of handling. The destination is therefore temporarily not during this emptying available for additional sorting items.
  • the time span of this temporary failure can also depend on how many operating personnel are available in the sorting system and / or whether, for example, several target locations are full at the same time due to chance and can be emptied faster and sometimes less quickly by the available personnel. Another reason for the temporarily unavailable terminal can be a fault that has to be remedied first.
  • Sorting pieces that are intended for such a destination are therefore guided along the sorting path and must be directed into a reject compartment at a designated destination.
  • Such sorting items have hereby blocked a place for a sorting item that can be effectively sorted into a destination, which is why the sorting system cannot achieve its highest possible sorting capacity.
  • a sorting system or the entire sorting center is essentially defined by its real sorting performance (OTP), which can also fix the throughput specifications for local management.
  • OTP real sorting performance
  • a second important parameter is the number of employees required.
  • HV high-volume
  • these estimates are overlaid by the time-dependent occurrence of sorting items. For example, it may be the case that on average two destination points (end points) are sufficient for a HV sorting destination, but a temporary situation occurs that exceeds the end point performance (e.g. operator at the dock, automatic loading system) for a critical period.
  • the absorption capacity or the storage capacity of the funding path equipped with the destination / end points is limited. If this storage capacity is now exhausted, the sorting pieces remain on the conveyor path and are recirculated or are excreted after passing through the conveyor path. In the former case, the sorting items do not have to be returned to the conveying path, but these recycled sorting items reduce the sorting performance. In the second case, the sorting feeder (drop point, Bullet device), which is usually only a subordinate problem, since the input performance usually exceeds the sorting performance.
  • the present invention is therefore based on a simple and inexpensive solution to this problem with the aim of achieving a consistently high sorting performance of the determining actual sorter.
  • the method and the sorting system enable an improved utilization of the sorting capacity of the sorting system, because sorting items, the target locations of which are temporarily unavailable, are not placed on the actual sorting route / conveying route at all, but immediately after they have been entered (recording those identifying the sorting item Data) must be removed from the sorting process before the actual sorting process begins.
  • This rejection later causes a new entry process at the entry point, but since the capacity of the at least two input devices is usually greater than the sorting capacity of the sorting system, this re-feed only plays a minor role in achieving the greatest possible sorting performance (OTP).
  • the feedback for determining the absorption capacity can be generated by an active operating action at a target location.
  • operating personnel can report a destination as unavailable at the push of a button.
  • the sorting control receives this actuation signal and, in response to the non-readiness of this target point, initiates a corresponding setting of the discharge points, which leads to the fact that sorting pieces that have been abandoned for this non-ready target point are discharged before the actual sorting path is reached. Only when it is confirmed by a corresponding push of a button that the target location is now able to pick up sorting items again, are the sorting items recorded for this target location no longer being removed, but instead are conveyed as intended along the sorting route to the corresponding destination location.
  • the feedback can be generated by the sorting control itself, by evaluating the information about the target codes of the number of sorting items and thereby determining how many sorting items have already been placed on the input device for a specific target location, the recording status of this target location will be at least temporarily exhausted.
  • sorting control can already be carried out in advance or dynamically to determine when a destination will temporarily no longer be receivable due to the sorting pieces provided for this destination.
  • a number of 100 sorting pieces for a destination could be mentioned, which fill up a destination and thus make it necessary to change the container at the destination.
  • the time of the container change e.g.
  • the sorting control system sets the reject points for further sorting items in the discharge direction for this destination, which is temporarily unavailable due to the container change, so that certain sorting items for this destination point temporarily no longer reach the sorting route and thus the Do not put unnecessary strain on the sorting system.
  • Figure 1 shows schematically a sorting system 2 for sorting flat packages 4, 4a to 4d, here for example postal packages, such as letters, newspapers, magazines and the like.
  • the sorting system 2 described below and the sorting method carried out thereon can in principle also be used for sorting piece goods, such as small packages, parcels, pieces of luggage and the like.
  • the sorting system 2 here has two input strands 5a, 5b, each of which has an input device 6a, 6b for the flat sorting pieces 4, 4a to 4d, with which the sorting pieces 4, 4a to 4d are fed by a height-adjustable stacking device 8 for the sorting.
  • Identification devices 7a, 7b are linked to the input devices 6a, 6b, which can be configured, for example, as bullet-in devices or the like, which can detect data identifying the respective sorting piece, such as the address or a code representing it. Subsequently, each input line 5a, 5b each has a transfer switch 12a, 12b, with which a sorting piece can be discharged from the sorting process into the discharge container 22a, 22b before reaching a merging unit 9 for the two input strands 5a, 5b, without having been on an actual conveying path 10 provided for the sorting.
  • Conveyor switches 14 to 20 are arranged in this conveyor path 10, each of which is assigned a destination 24 to 30.
  • each of the target locations 24 to 30 has an adjustable status display 32 to 38.
  • These status displays 32 to 38 are set here by a sorting control 40 and can also be operated by the operating personnel (not shown here).
  • a number of flat sorting pieces 4 which have been provided on the input device 6 in the stack, have already been sorted into the various target locations 24 to 30.
  • the sorting control 40 controls the sorting switches 14 to 20 in accordance with the address recorded for the sorting piece in the input device in such a way that the flat sorting piece 4 reaches the destination 24 to 30 assigned to this address in accordance with a sorting logic.
  • the sorting control 40 has now adjusted the discharge switch 12a such that these two sorting pieces 4a, 4b are discharged directly after their task before the actual sorting path 10 begins and are thus sorted into the discharge container 22a.
  • these two sorting pieces 4a, 4b currently do not further burden the sorting capacity of the sorting system 2.
  • the second input line 5b has entered here and, instead of the sorting pieces 4a and 4b, was able to place the sorting pieces 4c and 4d on the conveyor path 10, whereupon a destination 26 corresponding to the respective address or 28 have been equipped with these sorting pieces 4c and 4d. Due to the premature removal of the sorting pieces 4a and 4b, the sorting system 2 according to the invention did not result in a decrease in the sorting capacity, but rather the capacity of the sorting system 2 could be fully used.
  • this feedback has been generated by the sorting control 40 itself by evaluating the information about the target codes of the sorting pieces 4 provided for the sorting process. In this way it could be determined, for example, that in this set of sorting pieces 4, at least after six, already at the input devices 6a and 6b for a specific one The sorting pieces 4 given to the destination 24 are at least temporarily exhausted, and thus a change of state from "I" to "0" has to take place.
  • Figure 3 can now show two alternatives.
  • the first of the two alternatives is the Figure 3 show a third point in time at which the container of the target location 24 for emptying it is actually not present. The value "0" is therefore correctly displayed on the status display 32.
  • the state of the sorting system 2 can be shown at an alternative second point in time.
  • the status display 32 can indicate to the operating personnel optically and / or acoustically or also as a display on a data display device of an operating station that the container of the destination 24 is to be emptied. Consequently, the denial of the absorption capacity for the target point 24, which is reported back to the sorting control 40, has also resulted in the flat sorting pieces 4a, 4b being discharged into the discharge container 22a.
  • the Figure 4 now shows a snapshot of the sorting process of the sorting system 2 at an even later time.
  • the container of the destination 24 has been emptied and replaced in this destination 24. Accordingly, the status display 32 has again changed from the "0" status to the "I" status, be it through manual intervention by the operating personnel at the status display 32 or through the detection of the presence of an empty container at the target location 24 in communication with the sorting control 40.
  • the two rejected sorting pieces 4a and 4b were placed on top of the stack 8a or 8b again at the input device 6a or 6b and now in the sorting process consequently conveyed to the destination 24.

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