WO2001040082A1 - Sistema automatizado para la manipulacion de mercancias paletizadas - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a system automati ⁇ Zado for handling palletised goods in shipping areas, supply and storage of a factory or goods distribution center.
- the present invention provides a fully automated system for performing the handling operations of palletized goods in factories or warehouses that are necessary to achieve desirable logistic purposes. Such automation contributes to achieving one of the desirable purposes of any logistics system: the agility of merchandise handling operations.
- the system object of the present invention automatically provides all the relevant information for effective logistics management - the other basic purpose of these systems - through the automatic registration of the relevant information of all physical merchandise handling operations; the adequate exploitation of this information allows to optimize the fundamental logistic tasks of order management, supply management and stock management. In particular, it allows complete monitoring of all pallet movements.
- the system uses four types of physical merchandise handling devices:
- a fleet of automatically guided vehicles • A plurality of delivery devices for palletized end products (associated with the final part of factory production trains) to automatically guided vehicles.
- a plurality of loading / unloading docks that include at least one truck loading / unloading device, or other types of vehicles, in a single operation and auxiliary devices for feeding / evacuating goods.
- the system comprises means for: • The fleet of automatically guided vehicles to perform the necessary movements inside the factory for the dispatch / receipt of palletized goods.
- Loading docks carry out the necessary operations to load / unload a truck.
- the mentioned means include a Central Government Unit, constituted by a computer server, with process means for exchanging messages with Management Units and Control of the fleet of automatically guided vehicles, loading / unloading docks and devices. of delivery / reception of merchandise, said Units being constituted by programmable automatons.
- These messages essentially include information on the operational status of said devices, from a predetermined list, which are provided to the Central Government Unit by said Management and Control Units; orders of operations transmitted by the Central Government Unit to the aforementioned Management and Control Units; and information transmitted by these Units on the execution of said orders.
- the system also includes detecting means associated with loading docks and goods delivery / reception devices that transmit signals on the presence / absence of pallets in them to the respective Management and Control Units and / or, directly, to the Central Government Unit.
- the system also includes specific configurations of the goods delivery / reception devices and, in particular:
- the system object of the invention is particu ⁇ larly applicable to logistic systems, like that of a company manufacturing beer, where can implement distribution of goods between plants and distribution centers based on trucks, or other vehicles , loaded, in an important proportion, with the same type of merchandise.
- Figure 1 is a schematic plan view of the part of a factory in which the merchandise handling system object of the present invention is applied.
- Figures 2a and 2b are schematic plan views of a preferred configuration of palletized goods delivery / reception devices.
- Figure 3 illustrates a stacking cycle in a palletized merchandise delivery device.
- Figure 4 is a schematic plan view of a configuration of a loading / unloading dock.
- FIG 5 is a schematic plan view of an alternative configuration of a loading / unloading dock.
- Figure 6 shows in a block diagram the information flows exchanged between the Central Government Unit, the Management and Control Units of the physical devices and the detecting means associated with those devices.
- Figure 7 diagrammatically shows the fundamental tasks performed by the Central Government Unit.
- Figure 8 illustrates the temporary storage areas used in the system.
- the total automation of the operations of handling of merchandise is provided that must be carried out both for the expedition to the outside of the production of the factory and to feed the production chain with the required supplies, including of course the necessary temporary storage in one or another type of merchandise.
- it is achieved that such automation is oriented to the fulfillment of certain logistic purposes, which implies fully integrating the realization of physical operations of merchandise handling within the framework of a logistics system that, in the last instance, can know at all times the location of the goods produced or stored to assign them the convenient destination.
- the merchandise handling area to which the system is applied of the present invention in a brewery is a space 1 in which the final or initial parts of the production chains of the different merchandise are located, constituted by pallet delivery devices 10, 11, 13 in which they are prepared on pallets the final products of the factory and pallet receiving devices 12, 14 in which supplies are received.
- the device 10 delivers pallets 2 with beer cans
- the device 11 delivers pallets 3 with beer bottles
- the device 13 delivers pallets 4 with beer barrels
- the device 12 receives pallets 5 with bottles empty
- the device 14 receives pallets 6 with empty barrels.
- the pallets prepared in the delivery devices 10, 11, 13 are transferred by automatically guided vehicles 7, 8, 9 or to the loading / unloading docks 20, 21, 22 to be loaded onto trucks 90, 91, 92 and sent to their point of destination either to temporary storage spaces 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
- these spaces have been represented as storage spaces of, respectively, pallets of type 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6 mentioned above, but the system can dynamically vary such assignments according to needs.
- trucks 90, 91, 92 can bring to the factory supplies such as pallets 5 and 6 already mentioned with returnable bottles and barrels, which will be unloaded from trucks at docks 20, 21, 22 and transported by vehicles automatically guided 7, 8, 9 either to temporary storage spaces 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 or to receiving devices 12, 14.
- the pallet delivery devices are constituted by a pallet stacker 50 that receives them from the final part of a production chain 51 and stacks them in a delivery tray 52 from where they will be taken by an automatically guided vehicle 8.
- the stacker 50 of any known type, is governed by a Management and Control Unit 125 programmed for carrying out stacking cycles as outlined in Fig. 3, after which they are arranged in the tray delivery 52 four pallets arranged in two rows and two columns.
- EAN128 labels previously attached to the pallets.
- these labels contain an identification code of the pallet and identification codes of the palletized product and the production lot.
- Management and Control Unit 125 is its programming for: • The completion of a certain stacking cycle;
- the level of grouping of pallets in stackers of delivery devices is that corresponding to the predefined transport unit, for each type of product, for the movements of automatically guided vehicles.
- This definition also takes into account the means of external transport used for the shipment of the product.
- the group of four pallets would be appropriate both for transport by automatically guided vehicles inside the factory and for its final location in a truck fully occupying its useful section (in width and height).
- the pallet delivery devices include detecting means 122 configured, in any appropriate manner, to emit signals indicative of the presence / absence of pallets in the tray 52 so that an automatically guided vehicle 8 can evacuate them, and connect - both the Management and Control Unit 125 and the Central Government Unit 200.
- signals are used, on the one hand, by the Management and Control Unit 125 for the initiation of a new stacking cycle (when said analog signals indicate the absence of pallets) and, on the other hand, by the Central Government Unit 200 to confirm the status information of tray 52 ("tray full", "empty tray") transmitted by the Management and Control Unit 125 as digital messages, depending on the current phase of the stacking cycle.
- the receiving devices 12 and 14, as shown in Fig. 2b, are constituted by a pallet unstacker 55 that unstacks the group deposited in the receiving tray 57 by the automatically guided vehicle 8 and delivers them to the initial part of the production chain 56.
- the unstacker 55 is governed by the Management and Control Unit 135 which controls the realization of the unstacking cycle similar, in the opposite direction, to that shown in Fig. 3 and which, analogously to the Management Unit and Control 125, is programmed to issue digital messages about the status of the receiving tray 57.
- the devices 12 and 14 also include detecting means 132 similar to the detecting means 122 of the delivery devices.
- the loading / des ⁇ load 20, 21, 22 are essentially constituted by silver- forms 23, 24 and 25 that allow loading / unloading a truck in a single operation and carriers 26 , 27, 28 to feed pallets to platforms 23, 24, 25 or remove them from them.
- the situation represented at the dock 20 is the preparation of a loading operation in which the automatically guided vehicle 9 deposits pallets in the conveyor 26; the one represented at the pier 21 is that of a platform 24 ready to transfer the load to the truck 91; finally, the situation represented on the dock 22 is that of a loaded truck 92 ready to go to its destination.
- a loading operation of a truck requires, in the first place, to transfer to one of the conveyors 26, 27, 28 the pallets to be loaded into the truck, by means of automatically guided vehicles 7, 8, 9 , who will obtain them well in the delivery devices 10, 11, 13 or in the storage spaces 15, 16, 17, 18, 19; secondly, transfer all the load of the conveyor to the adjacent platform and finally load the truck from said platform.
- Fig. 4 a preferred configuration of the loading / unloading springs is shown schematically in greater detail which will be used in this description from now on.
- a loading / unloading dock is constituted by an entry / exit table 60 of groups of pallets, where they are automatically deposited / collected by vehicles 9, a pre-load / post-discharge lung 61 and a fork of loading / unloading 62 that can be introduced into truck 90 to deliver / remove its cargo in a single operation.
- the operation of the dock would be as follows: the entrance table 60 receives a group of pallets from an automatically guided vehicle 9 and transfers it to the pre-load lung 61; once the pre-loading lung 61 has received all the pallet groups necessary to load the truck -in successive operations of receiving pallet groups at the entrance table 60 deposited therein by an automatically guided vehicle 9 and transfer from them to the load lung 61- transfers them to the fork 62, who performs the loading operation of the truck 90 by entering it, depositing all pallets and retiring to their initial position.
- the spring would work similarly, in the opposite direction.
- This type of dock is, in itself, known, constituting the forks based on means that allow its entry / exit to the truck 90 to carry out complete loading / unloading operations using inflatable / disinfectable devices for its displacement in the direction vertical.
- Springs of this type are marketed, for example, by the company ALSTOM.
- the loading / unloading dock is governed by a Management and Control Unit 165 programmed to perform the aforementioned operations of the input / output table 60, the pre-load / post-discharge lung 61 and the loading / unloading fork 62 and issuing messages about the status of said devices.
- said Management and Control Unit 165 will control that the input table 60 only transfers pallets to the lung 61 when it has capacity for it (determining it according to the number of pallet groups provided for each loading operation) and similarly the rest of operations.
- the Management and Control Unit 165 will be programmed to issue messages such as "empty lung", “full lung”, “fork ready to transfer cargo", etc., similar to what happened in delivery devices / merchandise reception.
- Means 160 can be connected to said Management and Control Unit 165 for reading labels of the EAN128 type attached to the pallets of the goods unloaded from trucks, which will only be activated in the unloading operations.
- the Central Government Unit 200 may obtain the identification information of said pallets by other means.
- the loading docks include detector means 161, 162, 163 configured to emit signals indicative of the presence / absence of pallets at certain points of the entry / exit table 60, the pre-load / post-discharge lung 61 and the loading / unloading fork 62.
- the configuration of the detecting means 161 is oriented to determine its ability to evacuate / receive goods (it can receive goods from an automatically guided vehicle if it is empty, it can evacuate goods to an automatically guided vehicle if it is filled in the manner intended for evacuation, etc.)
- the detecting means 162, 163 are configured to detect the presence / absence of pallets, in particular, at their end points to ensure that merchandise transfer operations between lungs and forks and between them and the truck respond to predetermined situations.
- An important aspect of the present invention is the possibility of using loading / unloading springs as shown schematically in Fig. 5 in which there would be a loading path constituted by an entry table 71, a pre-loading lung 72 and a loading fork 73 and a parallel discharge path constituted by an exit table 75, a post-discharge lung 76 and a discharge fork 77 and in each of them detecting means, not shown in Fig. 5, similar to 161, 162 and 163 mentioned above.
- the purpose particularly important in a brewery, of being able to unload a truck 90 with, for example, empty bottle pallets, and immediately after loading it with pallets of any of the can be achieved manufactured products
- Automatically guided vehicles used by the system object of the present invention are of the known type acid that uses magneto-guided navigation systems, such as those marketed by the company BALLOTTI.
- the fleet of automatically guided vehicles has a Management and Control Unit 175 with means for exchanging messages with the Central Government Unit in relation to the movement orders of the vehicles and Your execution status.
- said means include a Central Government Unit 200 connected, on the one hand, through a computer network for data transmission, with the Management and Control Units 125, 135 of the goods delivery / reception devices 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, with the Management and Control Units 165 of the loading / unloading docks 20, 21, 22, with the Management and Control Unit 175 of the automatically guided vehicles 7, 8, 9 and with a Logistics Module 201.
- the Central Government Unit 200 is directly connected to the detecting means 122, 132, 161, 162, 163 through ports, not shown in Fig.
- Fig. 6 which include an analog-digital converter for the transformation of the analog signals indicative of the presence / a absence of pallets in the corresponding devices in digital data.
- the aforementioned Units are provided with process means to, in broad terms, carry out the exchange of the following information flows, represented in Fig. 6 in straight lines when referring to digital messages transmitted by a network of Data transmission and curved lines when it comes to analog signals.
- Logistics Module 201 provides the Central Government Unit 200 with an information flow 210 related to the loading / unloading operations of trucks to be carried out at loading / unloading docks 20, 21, 22.
- the Central Unit of Government 200 provides the Logistics Module with 301 information flows 211 with detailed data on merchandise handling operations carried out by the system to, for example, inform customers of the exact status of fulfillment of their orders, analyze in detail the rotation of the stock , etc.
- the Central Government Unit 200 and the Management and Control Units 125, 135, 165 receive information on the presence / absence of pallets in the different devices through signals 260, 261, 262, 263, 264 sent by the detecting means 122, 132, 161, 162, 163.
- means 300 are first appreciated for providing the movement orders 220 of the automatically guided vehicles that are necessary to perform certain operations 210, taking into account information 231, 240 on the status of the devices of delivery / receipt of goods 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and information 315 on stocks in stock; for the purposes of the system, the identification of the operations 210 to be carried out can be carried out in any appropriate manner and, among them, by means of the Logistics Module 201 which, as shown in Fig. 7, would have allocation means 301 to do so. from information 320 of customer orders, information 321 of the supplies entrusted to the suppliers and of the information 322 of the trucks 90, 91, 92 that enter the factory to load / unload goods.
- means 310 are appreciated for providing the loading / unloading docks 20, 21, 22 with the operating orders 250, taking into account the status information 251 of said springs. They have also been included in Fig. 7 lines 340, 341, 342 to represent the existence of interrelations between the mentioned means. In that sense, it should be noted that an important aspect of the present invention is that in all merchandise handling operations, the registration of information of the operation performed is included and in that way, the system has full location and location information. content of any pallet at any time.
- Step 1 The Central Government Unit 200 receives from Logistics Module 201 the information of the presence of a truck 90 at the loading dock 20 to be loaded, for example, with pallets 2 of beer cans to meet the order of a particular client. In response to said information, the Central Government Unit 200 sends a message to the Management and Control Unit 165 of the loading dock 20 for it to configure the different components of the dock for a loading operation in which they would be handled, for example , the 10 pallet blocks (each having 4 pallets in two rows and two columns) necessary to fully load the truck 90.
- the Central Government Unit 200 receives from Logistics Module 201 the information of the presence of a truck 90 at the loading dock 20 to be loaded, for example, with pallets 2 of beer cans to meet the order of a particular client.
- the Central Government Unit 200 sends a message to the Management and Control Unit 165 of the loading dock 20 for it to configure the different components of the dock for a loading operation in which they would be handled, for example , the 10 pallet blocks (each having 4 pallets in two rows
- Step 2 Central Government Unit 200 generates a transport order to an automatically guided vehicle 7 to bring a block of pallets 2 of beer cans to the entrance table 60 of loading dock 20.
- Step 3 Once the previous order has been executed, the Management and Control Unit 165 of the loading dock 20 transfers the pallet block to the pre-loading lung 61 and informs the
- Step 4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the pre-load lung 61 is full, identifying such status by the Management and Control Unit 165 of the dock 20 once it has performed the 10 block transfer operations of pallets to the pre-load lung 61 (and the subsequent transfer of these into the lung)
- Step 5 The Central Government Unit 200 receives from the Management and Control Unit 165 of the loading dock 20 the status information "lung full” and sends orders to proceed with the loading of the truck 90, transferring, first, the 10 pallet blocks to the loading fork 62, after which it informs the Central Government Unit 200 that the lung condition is "empty lung” (therefore suitable for starting a new loading process) and then Entering ⁇ loading fork 62 in the truck and depositing the load.
- the Management and Control Unit 165 of the loading dock 20 that identifies the states of the input table 60, the pre-loading lung 61 and the loading fork 62 as a consequence of the realization of some or other operations and generates the messages that it sends to the Central Government Unit 200.
- the detecting means 161, 162, 163 also detect, respectively, the presence / absence of pallets in the input table 60 and predetermined points of the lung of pre-load 61 and of the load fork 62 and transmit the corresponding signals to the Central Government Unit 200 and the Management and Control Unit 165 of the spring allow confirmation of orders ope ⁇ rations to the loading dock 20 when the state information transmitted by the Management and Control Unit 165 is consistent with the one sent by corre- sponding sensing means. Otherwise, the Central Government Unit 200 or the Management and Control Unit 165 generates an incident message. Such a situation would occur, for example, when a pallet had moved out of position for any reason in the pre-load lung.
- the loading lung would be in the "full lung” situation because it would have controlled the transfer to it of the necessary pallet blocks.
- the detecting means 162 would identify the anomaly by not detecting all the pallets in their respective positions. After the relocation of the displaced pallet, the detecting means 162 with ⁇ would sign the "full lung” state and the Central Government Unit 200 would transmit the order to transfer the pallets from the pre-load lung 61 to the loading fork 62 .
- An order of movement to an automatically guided vehicle contains, at least, the following information: • Identification of the product to be transferred, for example, pallets 2 of beer cans to meet an order of a customer of this product. To the extent that the system It includes the use of a specific transport unit for each type of product, the simple identification of the product to be transferred identifies the quantity of product being transported. • Origin of the movement: either one of the delivery trays 52 in which pallets 2 of beer cans are produced, or the storage space 15 configured at a given time specifically for pallets 2 of beer cans.
- the generation of the movement orders from step 3 basically requires identifying the origin of the movement in a delivery device 10, 11, 13 or in a storage space 15.
- the means 300 of Central Government Unit 200 will carry out this task by applying predetermined logistic rules. For example, they could place the origin of the movement in the storage space 15 if merchandise had been reserved for the order that is served with the truck loading operation 210 or if the age of the lots located in the storage space 15 were advised to preferred shipment. They could also place it in the delivery device 10 if the delivery tray 52 of this device was in the "full tray” state and the criterion of preferably evacuating the "full trays” was applied.
- the status information of the loading docks 20, 21, 22 and of the goods delivery / receipt devices 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 is the starting information for the generation of a movement order determining the origin / destination of the movement - and also the nature of the merchandise to be transported - and it is the means 300 of the system that determine destination / origin based on predetermined logistic rules.
- Spaces stored ⁇ tion 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 are configured as assigned streets ⁇ das to types of specific pallets and within each lane, locations, identified by coordinates for each pallet, being possible to dynamically vary said allocations Role of needs. In this way, such locations can be identified through physical coordinates that are provided by the Central Government Unit 200 to the automatically guided vehicles 7, 8, 9 for Identify the origin or destination of a movement in these spaces.
- the registration of each movement operation in the storage spaces allows the system to permanently have information on its occupation.
- the aforementioned configuration is programmed according to the storage needs of the system with the only condition that pallets of the same type are stored in a street, and that type can be changed in a new configuration.
- the storage spaces or streets 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 are provided to store groups of pallets of the different goods handled in the factory interchangeably in the manner illustrated in Fig. 8 representing a situation in which the streets 15 and 19 are programmed to store 2 pallets of beer cans at locations 400 to 450 and 800 to 850; lane 16 is programmed to store pallets 6 with empty beer barrels at locations 500 to 560 and lanes 17 and 18 are programmed to store pallets 3 of beer bottles at locations 600-670 and 700-770.
- the effective width of the streets corresponds to the width of the respective transport units of each type of product (more than one unit can be stored in height) and that automatically guided vehicles 7, 8, 9 access the streets following its central line. It is also observed that the streets are sized to fit the possible differences in width of different types of pallets.
- the Central Government Unit 200 has, as has been said, detailed information on the situation of occupation of the storage spaces or streets, including the identification of the pallet that occupies a specific location and may vary the allocation of streets to types of pallets, according to the needs, so that, for example, once the pallets 2 of the 15th street have been evacuated, assign this street to pallets 4 of beer barrels.
- the logistic system of a beer company comprises its factories and several distribution centers from where the merchandise is generally distributed to customers, although, as is well understood, it can also be distributed from factories, especially to large customers. In all these points, a system like the one described above can be used, although, in the distribution centers, there would logically not be the delivery and reception devices associated with the production trains.
- the system according to the invention could also be used only in factories and conventional systems in distribution centers.
- the handling system in the factories can use, together with the automatically guided vehicles, conventional trucks operated manually as a means of transport inside the factory.
- trucks would be equipped with EAN128 tag readers and communication media with the Central Government Unit 200, for example radio transmitters, to provide the system with the same information as the automatically guided vehicles, that is, the destination of a transport movement and the identification information of the transported goods (read on EAN128 labels).
- the respective factory and distribution center governance systems are connected to exchange information so that the logistics management of the company is fully integrated.
- This exchange of information makes it possible, for example, for a distribution center to identify the merchandise sent by a factory simply by identifying the truck that carries it and similarly for a factory to identify the merchandise sent by a factory.
- EAN128 tag readers located at the unloading docks may be used, as mentioned in the previous detailed description of the preferred embodiment of the invention, or use the communications sent by a distribution center or a supplier detailing the contents of a truck.
- An advantage of the system according to the invention is the speeding up of the process of handling goods in the factory. In this sense, it has been proven that the process of unloading and loading a complete truck using the system of the invention is carried out in 7 minutes compared to the 35 minutes necessary with a conventional system using manually operated trucks.
- Another advantage is that full traceability of the pallets is achieved, that is, that there is real-time information on the situation of all the pallets managed by the company's logistics system.
- Another advantage is that the system provides all the necessary information for the administrative management of logistics operations (delivery notes, stock reports, etc.) and to achieve desirable objectives in any logistics system (minimization of stocks, efficiency in the attention of orders of customers, etc.).
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Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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AT99959420T ATE276945T1 (de) | 1999-12-02 | 1999-12-02 | Automatisches system zur handhabung von palletisierten waren |
EP99959420A EP1251083B1 (en) | 1999-12-02 | 1999-12-02 | Automated system for handling palletized merchandise |
AU16593/00A AU1659300A (en) | 1999-12-02 | 1999-12-02 | Automated system for handling palletized merchandise |
DE69920533T DE69920533T2 (de) | 1999-12-02 | 1999-12-02 | Automatisches system zur handhabung von palletisierten waren |
PCT/ES1999/000390 WO2001040082A1 (es) | 1999-12-02 | 1999-12-02 | Sistema automatizado para la manipulacion de mercancias paletizadas |
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