Order-picking storage system for picking transport units

• US 20050008463A1
• Filed: 06/09/2004
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Stehr, Peter, Stotzner, Matthias
• Application Number:
  US10/863,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20050008463A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 414/277
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/1378 the orders being assembled on fixed commissioning areas remote from the storage areas

Abstract

An order-picking storage system for picking orders, in particular of articles in containers, includes at least one container store and at least one order-picking workplace. The containers are supplied from the container stores to at least one order-picking workplace and are provided there in straight-through channels and/or in variable-use stations in a plurality of removal positions. A conveying device transfers the containers supplied from the container store to each straight-through channel and/or variable-use station. The straight-through channels and/or variable-use stations and the order-picking workplace are arranged in the upper region of the container store. The storage system thus provides a time-saving and staff-saving order-picking storage system with a high utilization of space, and provides a compact, ergonomic and attractive workstation.

Claims

1. An order-picking storage system for the static and dynamic provision and picking of transport units, in particular articles in containers, the containers being supplied by means of conveying devices, said order-picking storage system comprising:

at least one container store, said container stores having bins arranged beside one another in several rows of racks and in a large number of storage levels; and

at least one order-picking workplace, the containers being supplied from said container stores to said at least one order-picking workplace and being provided there in at least one of (a) straight-through channels and (b) variable-use stations, the containers being provided in a plurality of removal positions located in the region of said order-picking workplace, each of said at least one of (a) straight-through channels and (b) variable-use stations having, on its region facing away from said order-picking workplace, a transfer region to which a conveying device transfers the containers supplied from said container store, wherein said at least one of (a) straight-through channels and (b) variable-use stations and said order-picking workplace are arranged in the upper region of said container store.

2. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 1, wherein further bins of a container store are arranged underneath the order-picking workplace.

3. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said container store arranged underneath the order-picking workplace is part of an automatic order-picking device having at least two rows of racks and a rack operating appliance arranged between these in a rack aisle.

4. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the static provision with access to fast-mover containers with high provision performance and the dynamic provision with access to slow-mover containers are separated functionally from each other.

5. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the static provision of fast-mover containers at the removal positions of said order-picking workplace is carried out via said straight-through channels associated with said order-picking workplace, whose transfer regions can be served by rack operating appliances of an automatic order-picking device of said container store.

6. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the dynamic provision of slow-mover containers is carried out at the removal positions of the dynamic variable-use stations of said order-picking workplace, whose transfer regions can be served by lifting beams or rack operating appliances.

7. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the dynamic variable-use stations of said order-picking workplace are arranged above a row of racks having bins for the slow-mover containers, the lifting beam of the conveying device is movable between said row of racks and a parallel adjacent row of racks, the transfer region of the dynamic variable-use stations can be served by the lifting beam of the conveying device.

8. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 7, wherein a plurality of interlinked container stores having a plurality of order-picking workplaces arranged in their upper regions and associated said at least one of (a) straight-through channels and (b) variable-use stations are assembled to form said order-picking storage system.

9. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the order-picking storage system comprises mutually parallel high racks with double-depth container spaces at each storage level, rack aisles being formed between two of said high racks, in which there are arranged rack operating appliances for transporting the containers between their storage spaces and the transfer regions of the straight-through channels or the lifting beam of the variable-use stations.

10. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of interlinked container stores having a plurality of order-picking workplaces arranged in their upper regions and associated said at least one of (a) straight-through channels and (b) variable-use stations are assembled to form said order-picking storage system.

11. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the static provision of fast-mover containers at the removal positions of said order-picking workplace is carried out via the straight-through channels associated with said order-picking workplace, whose transfer regions can be served by rack operating appliances of the automatic order-picking device of said container store.

12. The order-picking storage system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dynamic provision of slow-mover containers is carried out at the removal positions of the dynamic variable-use stations of the order-picking workplace, whose transfer regions can be served by lifting beams or rack operating appliances.