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USER-CONFIGURABLE GUIDANCE SYSTEM OF AN ORDER-PICKING WAREHOUSE AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING THE ORDER-PICKING WAREHOUSE

  • US 20120232689A1
  • Filed: 03/14/2012
  • Published: 09/13/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In an order-picking warehouse which comprises:

  • a plurality of storage locations and a guidance system;

    wherein the guidance system comprises a plurality of storage-location displays, a master computer, and at least one controller;

    a method for manually configuring the order-picking warehouse by using the guidance system comprises the following steps;

    equipping at least some of the storage locations with respectively one of the storage-location displays so that each of the equipped storage locations is associated with the one of the storage-location displays;

    connecting the associated storage-location displays to the master computer via the at least one controller, and allocating to each of the controllers a dedicated controller address; and

    configuring the order-picking warehouse by assigning respectively one dedicated storage-location address to each of the equipped storage locations in that;

    i.) all of the associated storage-location displays, which have not yet been assigned a dedicated storage-location address, are visually activated;

    ii.) at least one of the visually activated storage-locations display is selected by the user, thereby selecting the associated storage location and causing visual deactivation of the selected storage-location display;

    iii.) each of the selected storage locations is respectively assigned one dedicated storage-location address; and

    iv.) it is returned to step i.) until all of the associated storage locations, which have not yet been assigned a dedicated storage-location address, have been assigned a dedicated storage-location address, or until the user no longer wishes to assign dedicated storage-location addresses.

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