The invention relates to a method and a storage system for storing products such as carpets and picking them in determined delivery lots as a continuous flow of products, in which carpets are suspended as carpet units from hanger means running on a rail (4, 6, 11), the carpet units being guided to a storage space (5). The system comprises control logic software, by means of which a robot (8) retrieving carpet units is controlled in the storage space, the robot comprising an identifying device for identifying carpet units by means of an identification system, the robot (8) picking the desired carpet unit from the storage rail (6) and conveying it to a transfer station (10).

Das Kommissioniersystem weist eine Kommissioniergasse (1) zur Kommissionierung von Stückgütern auf Paletten (6) sowie eine dazu parallele Transportgasse (7) zum Abtransport von Kommissioniereinheiten auf Paletten (6) auf. Zwischen der Kommissioniergasse (1) und der Transportgasse (7) sind jeweils Absetzgestelle (10) angeordnet, auf welchen jeweils eine Kommissionspalette (6) von der Kommissioniergasse (1) aus absetzbar und von wo aus es auf die Transportgasse (7) ausbringbar ist. Zu diesem Zweck besitzt das Absetzgestell Trägerschienen für die Palette (6) sowie Fahrschienen für ein Satellitenfahrzeug (20), das von einem Verteilwagen (9) der Transportgasse aus in das Absetzgestell hineinfährt und die Kommissionspalette (6) abholt.

A method for the production control and handling of fresh daily food products, such as loaves of bread, wherein, to form customer groups which, according to the order of a customer, contain a number of units of different types of food, a number of units of one type of food in one production group are produced in a production step, of which production group the number of units corresponds to the sum of the numbers of units of that type of food ordered by different customers, each production group of a particular type of food being supplied in a supplying step to a conveyor, the units of a production group being distributed in a distribution step by the conveyor over different customer groups, and the production step, the supplying step and the distribution step being repeated for each different type of food until all types of food have been distributed over the different customer groups.

The invention also relates to a handling equipment for use in the method.

The invention relates to a method of sorting goods and a system therefor, and more particularly to an efficient method of sorting goods which arrive in the unit of items into groups which have been determined in advance in the order of delivery in a prescribed quantity so as to allow sequential loading of goods in a truck or the like in first-in-last-out manner depending on the item and quantity for a destination and/or a number of destinations, and to deal with changes in orders which frequently occur.

The system applicable to this method includes plural assembling and storage conveyors (1A, 1B, 1C) for assembling goods in classified groups, a diverting conveyor (7, 17) which sorts out goods arrived in the unit of items into said assembling and storage (1A, 1B, 1C) and a control system (201-204) which controls said diverting conveyor (7,17) and said sorting out operation.

The invention relates to a method of sorting goods and a system therefor, and more particularly to an efficient method of sorting goods which arrive in the unit of items into groups which have been determined in advance in the order of delivery in a prescribed quantity so as to allow sequential loading of goods in a truck or the like in first-in-last-out manner depending on the item and quantity for a destination and/or a number of destinations, and to deal with changes in orders which frequently occur.

The system applicable to this method includes plural assembling and storage conveyors (1A, 1B, 1C) for assembling goods in classified groups, a diverting conveyor (7, 17) which sorts out goods arrived in the unit of items into said assembling and storage (1A, 1B, 1C) and a control system (201-204) which controls said diverting conveyor (7,17) and said sorting out operation.