JPH07172518A - Picking method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To provide a picking method in which individual picking work is easy and it is easy to group these together. [Structure] In the parent box 3 and child box 7 that are grouped together,
Container 1 to which label 23 carrying picking information is attached
3 is accommodated and the child box 7 is conveyed continuously to the parent box 3. According to the picking information, the articles W are picked into the containers 13 in the parent box 3 and the child box 7, and after all picking is completed, the parent box 3 is filled with the containers 13 in the child box 7. . Only the parent box 3 is shipped and delivered,
The child box 7 is collected.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for picking a large number of articles according to the purpose, and more particularly to a picking method preferably used for joint purchase of goods.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a joint purchase system in which a group of a plurality of people collectively orders and purchases products, the type of ordered products and the number of each product in the group are used as order information for each group. At the product picking place, the ordered products are picked and boxed based on the order information in group units. Therefore, since the ordered items are collectively picked at the picking place, the individual picking work can be omitted, and the picking is easy and the working time is short. The picked ordered products are delivered to one member in the group, and then sorted into the ordered products for each member.
Each member will bring back his or her ordered product.

[0003]

However, as a result of ordering merchandise in group units, the picking work at the picking place is simplified, but each delivery destination requires complicated individual sorting by each member. Further, when different members order the same product in the group, the number of products can be easily discriminated, but the appearance of the same product may be slightly different. In such a case, the quality of the appearance of the product is added to the judgment of the separation, and therefore, when the separation is performed, there is a demand for multiple members to pick up the same product, and the emotional entanglement between the members may occur. There is. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a picking method capable of easily performing individual picking at a picking place and easily grouping the individually picked items into groups.

[0004]

The above object of the present invention is achieved by the following constitution. (1) A parent box and a child box, which are grouped together, contain a container having picking information attached thereto, convey the child box continuously to the parent box, and according to the picking information, the parent box and Picking method for picking articles in each container in the child box, storing all the containers in the child box in the parent box after all picking is completed, shipping the parent box, and collecting the child box .

(2) Picking information for each box is attached to a parent box and a child box that are grouped in the same group, the child box is conveyed continuously to the parent box, and the parent box is sent according to the picking information. A picking method of picking an article into a box and the child box, storing the child box in the parent box, and shipping the parent box after all picking is completed.

(3) A box with a partition to which a plurality of pieces of picking information are grouped in the same group is conveyed, the box is used as a first picking article storage box, and articles other than the box are picked. A picking method in which the articles are placed separately on a conveyor and picked, and after all picking is completed, a group of subsequent articles is stored in the box and the box is shipped.

[0007]

[Operation] By picking each box using the parent box and the child box, individual picking at the picking place is easy, and since the child boxes are continuously transported to the parent box, the parent box and the child box The relationship between the boxes can be easily recognized, and the individually picked items can be easily grouped in the same group. Therefore, the items shipped from the picking station are
Since they have already been sorted individually, sorting work at the delivery destination is not necessary, and the delivery destination only needs to select the article group based on their own identification information.

At the time of picking, a parent box, a child box,
It is preferable to prepare an article container that serves as a package when the articles are contained in these. In this case, it is preferable that an article container is placed in each box in advance, the picked article is stored in the container, and the container in the child box is stored in the parent box after the picking is completed. Further, it is not necessary to prepare a container separately from the parent box and the child box, and the child box may be directly picked into the parent box and the child box, and the child box may be incorporated into the parent box after the picking is completed. In this case, the child box needs to be large enough to be accommodated in the parent box. Furthermore, you do not have to use a child box,
If the picked article group is sorted and placed in succession on the parent box on the conveyor on which the parent box with partitions is placed, and the picked article group is sorted and stored in the parent box after completion of picking Good.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a plan view of a picking facility for picking products ordered collectively by a group by joint purchase, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of picking work, and FIG. 3 is a state diagram of a box in picking. It should be noted that FIG. 1 shows the part where each process is executed by each process number shown in FIG.

The conveying means in the picking equipment 1 comprises a conveyor 5 for supplying the parent box 3 and a conveyor 9 for supplying the child box 7. The conveyor 9 for supplying the child box is endless, and the conveyor 5 for supplying the parent box joins the conveyor 9 for supplying the child box at a predetermined joining portion 11. The parent box 3 and the child box 7 are loaded with the containers 13 before they are merged in the process of being transported.

The parent box 3 continuously supplied by the parent box conveyor 5 (S1) is loaded in the container loading section 15 by a worker with the container 13 opening upward (S2). The container 13 is made of, for example, a bag made of a deformable material such as vinyl, a plastic case, or the like, and the article W is actually accommodated in the container 13 and is used as a packaging container after the article is accommodated.

On the other hand, the child box 7 continuously supplied by the child box conveyor 9 (S4) is similarly loaded with the container 13 in the container loading section 17 (S5). The parent box 3 and the child boxes 7 loaded with the containers 13 are respectively conveyed by conveyors 3 and 9 (S3, S6), and one or more child boxes 7 are associated with one parent box 3 according to the picking information. Then, they are set as the same group and are appropriately joined at the joining portion 11 (S7). Although there is no particular relation to the sizes of the parent box 3 and the child box 7, it is preferable to make the child box 7 smaller than the parent box 3 for easy identification.

An identification label attaching means 21 for attaching the identification label 19 to the parent box 3 is provided downstream of the merging portion 11 in the conveying direction.
Is arranged, and the order label attaching means 25 for attaching the order label 23 to the container 13 is arranged downstream thereof. After the parent box 3 and the child box 7 are merged, the group identification label 19 having the group identification information and the like is attached to the parent box 3 (S8). Then, in the process in which the parent box 3 and the child box 7 are continuously transported, the containers 13 loaded in the parent box 3 and the child box 7
The order label 23 with the order information and the like of the products by each member of the group is attached to (S9).

The identification label 19 attached to the parent box 3 includes
Identification number of the parent box 3 (for example, A, B, C, etc.), type and number of articles W to be stored in the parent box 3, number of child boxes 7 handled as the same group as the parent box 3, and branch numbers thereof (For example, A-1,
A-2, ..., B-1, B-2, ..., C-1, C
-2, ..., etc.) are carried. Further, the order label 23 attached to the container 13 has branch numbers (for example, A-1, A-2, ..., B-1, B-2,
..., C-1, C-2, etc.) and its container 13
The type, the number, and the like of the articles W to be stored in are stored.

An automatic cutting device 27 is arranged downstream of the label sticking means 21 and 25 so as to send the set of the parent box 3 and the child box 7 to the picking section 29 at an appropriate timing. A parent box 3 to which an identification label 19 is attached,
Child box 7 loaded with container 13 with order label 23 attached
Is supplied at an appropriate interval by the automatic cutting device 27 (S10). This state is shown in FIG.

In the picking section 29, a rack 31 containing a large number of boxes containing different kinds of articles W is arranged along the conveyor 9. The worker stands between the rack 31 and the conveyor 9, and the parent box 3 is conveyed on the conveyor 9.
Picking a predetermined item W in the child box 7 (individual item)
(S11). The picking by the worker is performed, for example, while looking at the list sheet having the same contents as the product order information carried by the labels 19 and 23 attached to the parent box 3 and the container 13. Alternatively, instead of this, the information carried by the labels 19 and 23 is read by the sensor, and the content is displayed in the picking unit 29 so that the worker can recognize it, and the worker picks while viewing the displayed content. .

In the example shown in FIG. 1, the picking equipments 1 at two locations share the parent box feeding conveyor 5, and one picking equipment 1 feeds the parent boxes 3 to the two picking equipments 1. It

As shown in FIG. 3 (b), when the parent box 3 and the child box 7 are conveyed through the picking section 29, when all the picking is completed, a worker puts a container in each of the boxes 3 and 7. The mouth of 13 is closed, and in the assembling part 33, as shown in FIG.
As shown in (c), the child box 7 containing the products in the parent box 3
The inner container 13 is stored (S12). As a result, in the parent box 3, the items picked by the parent box 3 itself and the items picked by the two child boxes 7 are arranged in three containers 13.
It is sorted and housed. In this state, the parent box 3 accommodates three containers 13, and the child box 7 following it is empty.

The parent box 3 is composed of three containers 13 containing articles W.
Are shipped in the shipping section 35 (S
13). Further, the empty child box 7 is repeatedly conveyed as it is toward the merging section 11 by the endless conveyor 9 and reused (S14). The shipped parent box 3 is sorted by the members of the group when it is delivered to the joint purchase group which is the customer. Here, since each container 13 is provided with the label 23 having the identification information of each member and the order information, each member has a container 13 corresponding to each member.
Should be identified and received. Therefore, the members do not need to select their own products from the same product group on the spot, and only need to search for their own label 23, which makes sorting work on site extremely easy.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. The first embodiment is a picking facility that uses the parent box 3, the child box 7, and the container 13, but the second embodiment described below does not use the container 13 and the parent box 3 and the child box 7. Picking with and. And after picking,
As shown in FIG. 4, the child box 7 is smaller than the parent box 3 so that the child box 7 can be loaded into the parent box 3.

The picking method of the second embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment, but the article W is directly contained in the parent box 3 and the child box 7. Further, instead of using the container 13, the order label 23 is also directly attached to the parent box 3 and the child box 7. Then, when all picking is completed, the child box 7 containing the article W is loaded into the parent box 3. In this state, the picked articles W are separately stored in the parent box 3. Therefore, the shipped parent box 3 can easily identify the sorting state even at the delivery destination, and the sorting work by the group members at the delivery destination is unnecessary. The child box 7 is shipped and delivered together with the parent box 3, but the parent box 3
It will be collected and reused together.

Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the third embodiment, substantially only the parent box 3 is used, and the parent box 3 is divided into a plurality of storage chambers as shown in FIG. 5 so that the delivery destination can be individually identified. Part of the picked article W is housed in the parent box 3, and the other is directly placed on the conveyor. For this reason, it is preferable that the conveyor 9 is a slat conveyor (illustrated in the figure) or a belt conveyor capable of stably mounting and transporting the article W.

In the picking operation, picking is carried out on the conveyor 9 into the parent box 3 to be conveyed, and the individual picking portion is placed on the part on the conveyor 9 following the parent box 3.
The picking itself is performed on the conveyor 9, but after the picking is completed, the group of articles W picked on the conveyor 9 is stored in each storage chamber of the parent box 3. A label 23 carrying identification information and order information of group members is attached to each accommodation chamber of the parent box 3 so that each accommodation chamber corresponds to each group member.

[0024]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, since the articles have already been individually picked at the picking place, it is not necessary to sort the articles at the delivery destination, and the goods are separately packaged at the delivery destination. It is a simple task of only identifying and distributing the provided items. In addition, since the parent box and the child box can be individually picked at the picking place, and the parent box and the child box are associated with each other, the group can be easily identified, and after the individual picking, Easy to group.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a layout view of a picking facility according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of picking.

FIG. 3 is a state diagram of a box in picking of the first embodiment, (a) is before picking, (b) is during picking,
(C) represents after picking.

FIG. 4 is a state diagram of a box in picking according to a second embodiment, showing a state after picking.

FIG. 5 is a state diagram of picking according to a third embodiment, showing a state after picking.

[Explanation of symbols]

 W Items 1 Picking Equipment 3 Parent Box 5 Parent Box Conveyor 7 Child Box 9 Child Box Conveyor 11 Merging Section 13 13 13, 15, 17 Container Loading Section 19 Identification Label 21 Identification Label Application Means 23 Order Label 25 Order Label Application Means 27 Automatic Cutting device 29 Picking part 31 Rack 33 Assembling part 35 Shipping part

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[Submission date] January 13, 1994

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[Explanation of symbols] W article 1 Picking equipment 3 Parent box 5 Parent box conveyor 7 Child box 9 Child box conveyor 11 Confluence section 13 Containers 15 and 17 Container loading section 19 Identification label 21 Identification label sticking means 23 Order label 25 Order Labeling means 27 Automatic cutting device 29 Picking section 31 Rack 33 Assembling section 35 Shipping section

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A parent box (3) and a child box (7) that are grouped together contain a container (13) with picking information attached thereto, and the child box is contiguous to the parent box (3). (7) is conveyed, the article (W) is picked in each container (13) in the parent box (3) and the child box (7) according to the picking information, and after all picking is completed, A picking method for accommodating a container (13) in the child box (7) in the parent box (3), shipping the parent box (3), and collecting the child box (7). 2. A parent box (3) and a child box (7) which are grouped together are accompanied by picking information for each box, and the child box (7) is consecutively attached to the parent box (3). According to the picking information, the article (W) is picked in the parent box (3) and the child box (7) according to the picking information, and after all picking is completed, the child box (3) is placed in the parent box (3). Picking method in which 7) is housed and the parent box (3) is shipped. 3. A box (3) with a partition to which a plurality of pieces of picking information that are grouped together is conveyed, and the box (3) is used as a first picking article storage box, other than the box (3). Items (W) to be picked onto the box (3)
Subsequent to the above, each picking is carried out by separately mounting on the conveyor (5), and after all the picking is completed, the succeeding article (W) group is accommodated in the box (3) and the box (3) is stored. ) Shipping method.