US 12,129,114 B2
Storage and picking system having improved stocking performance and method for operating same
Gerald Kettlgruber, Linz (AT); Timothy Lindley, Schwerte (DE); Philipp Johann Kolmhofer, Leonding (AT); Marta Barberá Mateo, Cornellá de Llobregat (ES); and Harald Johannes Schroepf, Wels (AT)
Assigned to TGW Logistics Group GmbH, Marchtrenk (AT)
Appl. No. 17/422,292
Filed by TGW Logistics Group GmbH, Marchtrenk (AT)
PCT Filed Feb. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/AT2020/060038
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/163885, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. A 50102/2019 (AT), filed on Feb. 11, 2019; and application No. A 50124/2019 (AT), filed on Feb. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0089368 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B65G 1/04 (2006.01); B65G 1/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 1/0457 (2013.01) [B65G 1/065 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a storage and order-picking system, comprising the steps
a) providing mixed articles at an article receiving area of the storage and order-picking system, wherein the articles comprise lying articles,
b) loading hanging bags in an article-specific manner with the lying articles at a first loading station and acquiring article types of the lying articles loaded in the hanging bags,
c) transporting the loaded hanging bags into a hanging bag sorting device by means of a hanging bag conveyor system,
d) forming groups of hanging bags in the hanging bag sorting device based on an article-grouping rule, which allocates one or multiple specifiable article types to each group,
e) transporting the groups of hanging bags to a second loading station by means of the hanging bag conveyor system,
f) transferring the lying articles contained in the hanging bags in an article-specific manner of a group of hanging bags into an article storage lying article loading aid, which is comprised by article storage loading aids, at the second loading station, and storing the article storage lying article loading aid in a lying article article storage, which is comprised by an article storage of the storage and order-picking system, by means of a storage conveyor system, wherein transferring and storing takes place without reference to a picking order and wherein the article storage lying article loading aid is configured differently from a hanging bag,
g) acquiring picking orders for picking ordered lying articles, which are comprised by ordered articles, and
h) processing a picking order comprising the steps
retrieving an article storage lying article loading aid, which contains at least one ordered lying article allocated to the picking order, from the lying article article storage by means of a retrieval conveyor system, and
loading a target loading aid with the at least one ordered lying article at a picking station.