A method for optimising the picking of items from containers at a port of an automated storage and retrieval system comprising a framework structure (100) forming a three-dimensional storage grid structure (104) for storing storage containers (106) for storing items, where the grid structure (104) forms vertical storage columns (105) each having a horizontal area defined by the size of an access opening (112) of the vertical storage columns (105) and where the framework structure comprises a rail system (108) arranged above the storage columns (105), the rail system comprising a plurality of rails extending in an X-direction and a Y-direction to form a grid, the rails defining a perimeter of each access opening (112) on top of each storage column (105), the rail system (108) providing available routes in the X-direction or the Y-direction for container handling vehicles (201, 301) handling and transferring the storage containers (106) to and from the storage columns (105), wherein the method comprises the following steps; presenting the central computer system with a queue of tasks, reconfiguring the queue of tasks that can share sorting container with another orders, setting the container queue at the port based on the inventory inside a container/container compartment in such a way that when one container is presented it gets the maximum amount of pick to destination containers.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system and method for order batching. An example method includes receiving a plurality of orders for delivery to a plurality of destinations; generating permutations of the orders corresponding to different sequences of the destinations; estimating, for the permutations, one or more of a total delivery time, a total promise time miss, and a total hold time miss; generating batch scores for the permutations based on the respective total delivery time, total promise time miss, and total hold time miss; generating a permutation ranking based on the batch scores; determining a top-ranked permutation; assigning orders in the top-ranked permutation to one of a plurality of delivery persons; initiating preparation of the orders in response to determining that an estimated arrival interval of the delivery person is within an estimated preparation interval; and dispatching delivery of the orders to the delivery person.

There is disclosed an intralogistics system (10) comprising: a transport network (14) comprising a plurality of transport units (15; 16, 18) and being configured to implement a material flow, caused by transport orders (22), within the intralogistics system (10), wherein each of the transport devices (15) is operated with at least one preset variable operating parameter (36); a plurality of sensors (28) cyclically detecting the current operating states (34); and a controller (26) including a material-flow computer (30), which initially plans and generates the transport orders (22), and cyclically coordinates the implementation of the transport orders (22) based on the current operating states (34); wherein the controller (26) further includes a digital material-flow twin (32), which includes a material-flow simulation model (40), an operating-parameter optimization device (42) and an analysis device (44) and is configured: to cyclically simulate the material flow based on the respective current operating states (34) with and without varying operating parameters (36) of the transport devices (15), to analyze the simulated material flows with regard to throughput improvement, and in case that throughput improvement is analyzed, to transmit the correspondingly varied operating parameter (36) to the corresponding transport devices (15), which subsequently are operated based on the varied operating parameters (36). Further, there is disclosed a method for implementing material flow.

A method and an order picking warehouse is for picking and packaging articles. The order picking warehouse comprises an order management system, transport loading aids, an automatic unloading station, a provisioning device for providing a shipping package or a collective loading aid at the unloading station and a packaging station. Picking orders are acquired and the articles are provided in transport loading aids and transported to the unloading station. At the unloading station, optionally a shipping package or a collective loading aid, into which the articles are reloaded from the transport loading aids, is provided on the basis of the picking order. The filled shipping package can be transported away and shipped to an article recipient. The filled collective loading aid, however, is provided at the packaging station, where the articles are reloaded from the collective loading aid into a secondary package.

An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage unit configured to accommodate a first plurality of cases; a supply unit configured for providing at least one of the first and/or a second plurality of cases; a storage and retrieval machine configured to access the plurality of cases of the storage unit and to provide at least one of the plurality of the cases to the supply unit; wherein the storage and retrieval system enables access to the second plurality of cases stored by a first mobile rack using the storage and retrieval machine.

A warehousing system is provided. The warehousing system includes: a workstation area; at least one of at least one mixed workstation, at least one first workstation or at least one second workstation, configured to receive an order, in which the order hits first type of goods and second type of goods; a storage area, configured to store at least one first-type carrier and at least one second-type carrier; at least one first-type transporter, configured to transport the first-type carrier carrying the first type of goods to the mixed workstation or the second workstation based on a transporting instruction; at least one second-type transporter, configured to take out and transport a container from the second-type carrier to the mixed workstation or the first workstation based on the transporting instruction; and a controller, configured to send transporting instructions to the first-type transporter and the second-type transporter.

A warehousing system includes a plurality of movable holders, a movable carrier park area, a control device, a workstation and handling equipment. The control device is configured to obtain an order, and determine a bound container and a bound holder according to the order. The bound holder is a movable holder carrying the bound container. The handling equipment is configured to transport all the bound holders parked in the movable holder parking area to the workstation, and at least two bound holders are transported to the same workstation. The workstation is configured to exchange a container on a first bound holder and a bound container on a second bound holder according to the cargo collection attribute of the bound container, to improve the consistency of cargo collection attribute of the container on the first bound holder.

A method includes a method comprising receiving, by a computer, image data of an image of a shelf unit with a plurality of items and a plurality of item tags comprising machine readable codes adjacent to the items. The method also includes identifying, by the computer, an item associated with a shelf tag in the plurality of shelf tags. After identifying the item, performing, by the computer, additional processing with respect to the identified item.

A method, including collecting overlapping video segments (36) that cover a warehouse (20) storing items (22) in respective bins (24), and stitching together the videos so as to generate a merged video (54). In the merged video, individuals (38) are identified performing picking actions (144) from different bins at respective coordinates (146), and based on the merged video, respective coordinates (84) of the bins from which the picking actions were performed are identified. A set of orders are retrieved from a warehouse management system (86), each of the first orders performed by a given individual and including one or more of the items. The picking actions, the coordinates of the bins, and the first orders are analyzed so as to establish a correspondence between the bins and the items, and the correspondence is applied to verify execution of second orders performed subsequent to performance of the set of first orders.

Techniques are described for verifying pick events associated with a storage facility or yard. For example, a system may be configured to capture sensor data associated with a pick event and determine if any incorrect items are placed in an order cart during the pick event. The system may provide substantially real-time feedback in the form of alerts to an operator associated with the order cart, thereby reducing erroneous items from shipping.