US 12,012,282 B2
Storage and picking system and picking method for automatically and manually picking goods
Christian Ahammer, Gunskirchen (AT); Christoph Haslehner, Prambachkirchen (AT); and Harald Schroepf, Wels (AT)
Assigned to TGW Logistics Group Gmbh, Marchtrenk (AT)
Appl. No. 17/284,311
Filed by TGW Logistics Group GmbH, Marchtrenk (AT)
PCT Filed Oct. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/AT2019/060352
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/082101, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 50917/2018 (AT), filed on Oct. 23, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0017302 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B65G 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 1/0485 (2013.01) [B65G 1/1378 (2013.01)] 57 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for order-picking articles from source loading aids into or onto target loading aids in a storage and order-picking system (1), comprising the steps:
a) provisioning the articles in or on source loading aids in a storage zone;
b) acquiring orders for order-picking articles and determining the articles required for these orders, wherein at least one order of the orders comprises multiple order lines and wherein each order line specifies at least one article according to its type of article and its number of pieces to be order-picked;
c) ascertaining the classification of the articles required for the processing of said order in groups of types of article, each of which comprises multiple types of article, wherein a first group of types of article contains types of article which can be handled automatically and a second group of types of article contains types of article which cannot, or only to a limited extent, be handled automatically but can be handled manually;
d) determining a first order part, whose at least one article belongs to the first group of types of article and can accordingly be handled automatically, and a second order part, whose at least one article belongs to the second group of types of article and can accordingly not, or only to a limited extent, be handled automatically but can be handled manually;
e) retrieving a first source loading aid with the at least one article of the first order part from the storage zone of the storage and order-picking system, transporting the first source loading aid to a first automatic order-picking station, provisioning the first source loading aid at the first automatic order-picking station and removing automatically the at least one article of the first order part from the first source loading aid at the first automatic order-picking station;
f) retrieving a second source loading aid with the at least one article of the second order part from the storage zone of the storage and order-picking system, transporting the second source loading aid to a first manual order-picking station, provisioning the second source loading aid at the first manual order-picking station and removing manually the at least one article of the second order part from the second source loading aid at the first manual order-picking station; and
g) discharging the at least one article of the first order part and the at least one article of the second order part into or onto a target loading aid;
wherein
the first source loading aid with the at least one article of the first order part is allocated to the second order part, transported to a first manual order-picking station and provisioned at the first manual order-picking station and then said at least one article of the second order part is loaded manually into or onto a target loading aid if a number of pieces is specified in the respective order line for the at least one article of the first order part which exceeds a number-of-pieces threshold value.