US 12,240,700 B2
System and method for consolidating items for fulfilment of order in warehouse
K. V. N. B. Sai Krishna Mohan, Noida (IN); Deolin Devasia Thomas, Noida (IN); Meghan Kamath, Noida (IN); Ravi Ranjan, Noida (IN); and Sriram Sridhar, Noida (IN)
Assigned to Addverb Technologies Limited, Noida (IN)
Filed by Addverb Technologies Limited, Noida (IN)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/569,554.
Claims priority of application No. 202111034594 (IN), filed on Jul. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0033636 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B65G 1/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 1/1373 (2013.01) [B25J 9/1669 (2013.01); B65G 1/06 (2013.01); B65G 1/1371 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0258 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A warehouse execution system for consolidating items for fulfilment of orders in a warehouse, comprising:
an item retrieval arrangement configured to retrieve items associated with one or more orders from a storage area in the warehouse and place the retrieved items at a conveyor arrangement to be transferred to one or more infeed stations in the warehouse;
a scanning unit provided at each of the one or more infeed stations, the scanning unit configured to be implemented for scanning the items received thereat to generate a scan information therefor;
an item transfer arrangement having a plurality of storage bins, the item transfer arrangement configured to transfer the storage bins of the plurality of storage bins to a packaging station in the warehouse;
one or more platform levels with the one or more infeed stations located adjacent to one side thereof and the item transfer arrangement located adjacent to other side thereof;
one or more sorting robots provided on each of the one or more platform levels, the one or more sorting robots configured to travel on the platform level underneath thereof to transfer the items from the one or more infeed stations to one of the storage bins of the plurality of storage bins in the item transfer arrangement; and
a controller configured to:
execute a command for an order being processed with information about one or more items associated therewith,
implement the item retrieval arrangement to retrieve, at one instance, at least one item of the one or more items associated with the order being processed and implement the conveyor arrangement to transfer the retrieved at least one item to one of the one or more infeed stations, in response to the executed command,
acquire, from the scanning unit, the scan information for the said at least one item received at corresponding one of the one or more infeed stations,
assign one of the storage bins of the plurality of storage bins at the item transfer arrangement to the order being processed based on the acquired scan information,
implement one of the one or more sorting robots to collect the said at least one item from the said one of the one or more infeed stations and transfer the said at least one item to the assigned storage bin to the order being processed, and
implement the item transfer arrangement to transfer the said assigned storage bin to the packaging station, when each of the one or more items associated with the order being processed are transferred to the said assigned storage bin.