JPS63225017A - Sorter device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To promote the prevention of goods from being damaged and the improvement of work efficiency, by collecting a shipping data into a data of every shipping destination and goods group so as to control a trackless running load conveyer through a data of a chute, assigned by the collected data, and the shipping data. CONSTITUTION:A sorting control device 5 regulates a shipping data from a terminal equipment 6 and a bar code reader (BCR)7 into shipping destination and goods group data by a predetermined procedure. And the control device, assigning a chute on the basis of that data, transmits a goods code and its quantity, corresponding to each chute, both as the control data to a sorting controller 11. The sorting controller 11 moves a tray running tracklessly on the basis of the control data while displaying a quantity of the goods group in the second display device 10 in every chute. And the tray, loading goods, reaches each objective chute being charged. In this way, work efficiency can be improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sorting station used for sorting products.

2. Description of the Related Art In conventional sorting apparatuses, sorting chutes are fixed for each sorting destination (shipping destination) without distinguishing between products.

Problems that the invention aims to solveHowever, if the chute is fixed as in the past, products with different properties will be shipped in the same box, and one product may damage the other. For example, if frozen food and dry food are processed at the same time, the quality of the food deteriorates.Furthermore, because products sold in different sales areas at the sorting destination are shipped in the same box, it is difficult to re-sort the products at the sorting destination. There was a problem in that it had to be corrected and double sorting required work.

The present invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned problems, and aims to provide a sorting system that eliminates wasteful work without damaging products.

1F11 Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides the following features! ! A cargo transport device that loads products and runs on an endless track and slides the products on the arbitrary chute, and a sorting controller that controls the cargo transport device, and is equipped with a controller that controls the shipping destination and product group. Input a large number of shipping data including a product name and product quantity as a set, summarize the input shipping data into data for each shipping destination and product group, and use this data for each shipping destination and product group to perform the above-mentioned shoot. The sorter is equipped with a management device, and outputs the scraped chute data and the shipping data to the controller. It is designed to be sorted by sliding it down. .

Effect: With the above configuration, products are sorted by product group and shipping destination, and even if the shipping destination is the same, the products are packed into different boxes depending on the product group. Therefore, different product groups and products with different properties are not packed in the same box, and the quality of the products is prevented from being impaired.

Example Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of the sorting apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a control block diagram of the sorting apparatus. In I+U and FIG. 2, the sorting apparatus of the present invention is composed of the following members. The components include a tray 1 which is a load conveying device for conveying products, an endless track 2 on which the tray 1 runs,
There is a chute 3 for sorting products from which they slide down from the tray 1, a feeding induction 4 for placing the products on the tray 1, and a feeding induction simulator 4 for each sorting V! Riso r! A terminal 1316 and a barcode reader (hereinafter referred to as OCR) 7 connected to the tray 7t5, and a sensor 8 provided for each input induction 4 to determine whether or not there is a product on the tray 1 using a phototube or the like, A first display 9 provided for each input induction 4, a second display 10 provided for each chute 3, and a terminal 1J.
The product is determined based on the input from I6 and BCR7, and from the shipping data that includes the shipping destination store code, product group code, product code, and quantity input in batch processing,
The chute 3 is determined by the method described later, and various data to be described later are transmitted to the sorting controller 11.
A controller 11 is connected to the displays 9, 10 of the tray 1 and sub-parts the first and second indicators 9,10. In FIG. 1, 12 indicates a worker.

Next, a method of determining the chute 3 according to the product group and shipping destination in the sorting management 8@5 will be explained based on the flowchart of FIG. 3 and Table 1. Sorting Management\A Station 5 performs the following work processing (results are shown in Table 1) from the input shipping data. First, the shipping data is searched for the store code of the shipping destination, and the items are arranged horizontally in order of store code as shown in Table 1. (Step 21). Next, each product group is divided into groups based on the product group code and product code of the shipping data (step 22), and each product group is arranged vertically in the order of product code as shown in Table 1 (step 23). Then, data of the quantity matching the store code and product code of the shipping data is written (step 24). Next, the quantity data is summed for each product code to create product quantity data (step 25), and the quantity data for each store code and product group code is summed to create product group quantity data (step 26). . Then, it is determined whether the data for each product group quantity data is 1 or more, that is, whether the products of this product group will be shipped to the shipping destination store (step 27).
, if it is 1 or more, shoot 3 for this product group quantity data.
(step 28), and if it is O, it is determined whether the quantity data of all product groups has been checked.Step 29), all data of the number of all product groups is checked. Next, add up the product quantity data for each product group code to create total product quantity data (step 30), and add up the product group quantity data for each product group code to create total product group quantity data. Step 31), it is determined whether these total data match or not. Step 32); if they do not match, the process returns to step 24, and the
1 Redo the table.

Through such a procedure, the chute 3 is allocated according to the shipping destination and product group, and product quantity data and product group quantity data are created.

Next, the operation of sorting in the above combination will be explained.

When the allocation of the chute 3 is determined in the management device 5 as described above, the sorting is done by the management device! 5 transmits to the sorting controller 11 management data consisting of the product code and its quantity corresponding to the assigned chute 3, that is, the product and quantity to be sorted into the chute 3, the product group quantity, and the product quantity. For sorting, when the management data is input, the controller 11 starts moving the tray 1, displays the quantity of the product group on the second display 10 of each chute 3, and calculates the total number of products sliding down each chute 3. show. Then, the worker 12 handles each input induction 4.
Enter the terminal data consisting of the product group code, product code, and input induction 4 number of the product to be loaded on tray 1 from the terminal 116, and then write BCR7 on the barcode of the first product to confirm the product. guess. Then, the sorting management@station 5 checks the product based on the terminal data, displays whether it is good or bad on the terminal 6, and if it is good, transmits the terminal data to the sorting controller 11. For sorting, when the controller 11 inputs this terminal data, it displays the product quantity data on the first display 9 of the corresponding input induction 4, and shows the operator 12 the quantity of products to be loaded on the tray 1 from now on. And worker 1
2 starts loading the products onto the tray 1, the sensor 8 starts outputting a signal to the sorting controller 11 indicating that there is stock in the tray 1. For sorting, when the controller 11 receives this in-stock signal, the sensor 8
and the number of tray 1 are temporarily stored, and it is determined whether tray 1 with this number is stored as being in stock first. If it is stored, the data for the number of tray 1 is deleted; if it is not stored, the position of tray 1 is determined from the number of sensor 8, and the product on tray 1 is determined from the position of tray 1 and the terminal data. From this product code, the number of the chute 3 for moistening the products on the tray 1 is determined, and at the same time, the number of products to be loaded from the first display 9 of the input induction 4 is reduced. For sorting, when the tray 1 reaches the target chute 3, the controller 11 tilts the tray 1 to drop the products into the chute 3, and displays the second display 10 of this chute.
The quantity of the product group is reduced, and the memory that this tray 1 is in stock is deleted.

The controller 11 considers the sorting to be complete when the product group quantity on the second display 10 of all chutes 3 becomes zero.
At this time, if any product remains on the tray 1, a warning is issued to that effect, the product is dropped into the miss chute 13, and the tray 1 stops running to complete the sorting. Also, the terminal fl
Even if all product codes are input from 16 and Tray 1 is running for a certain period of time, if the quantity of the product group does not become zero, it will be determined that there is a shortage, and a warning will be issued to that effect and Tray 1 will stop running. to stop sorting.

In this way, by determining the allocation of chute 3 and performing sorting, it is possible to sort and pack products into boxes according to shipping destination and product group, which prevents products from being damaged if different product groups are packed in the same box. This can be prevented.

In this embodiment, the tray 1 is used as a load conveying device, but the load conveying device is composed of a load conveyor and a load unloading device provided for each chute 3, and the sorting is done by the controller 11, which is used to select the desired product. When the product reaches the chute 3, the unloading device may be driven to drop the product into the chute 3.

Effects of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, products are sorted through chutes for each product group and shipping destination, and even if the same shipping destination is packed in separate boxes for each product group, the product It is possible to prevent quality loss, and since each product group is packed in boxes, there is no need to re-sort the products at the shipping destination as in the past, saving labor and time.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 2 shows a block diagram of a sub-part of the equipment. Fig. 3 shows an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 3 shows an example of the sorting equipment. 12 is a flowchart showing a procedure for determining. 1... Tray, 2... Endless track, 3... Chute, 5... Management WAWl for sorting, 11... Controller for sorting.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Equipped with a plurality of chutes, a cargo transport device that loads products and travels on an endless track and slides the products down the arbitrary chute, and a sorting controller that controls the cargo transport device, Enter a large amount of shipping data that includes a group, product name, and product quantity, compile data for each shipping destination and product group from the input shipping data, and use the data for each shipping destination and product group to A sorting management device that allocates chutes and outputs the data of the allocated chutes and the shipping data to the sorting controller, and slides the products placed on the load transfer device onto the chutes for each shipping destination and product group. A sorting device configured to sort.