Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC

Brian Resnick

Christopher Scott Anderson

Timothy R Williams

Various embodiments described herein relate to a method of predicting article dimensions and controlling release timing of upcoming articles from upstream conveyors and dynamically computing release times for the upstream conveyors. The method includes predicting a dimension of an upcoming article and creating empty spaces on an upstream conveyor between one or more upstream articles from among a set of upstream articles by controlling an operating speed of a set of drive motors of the upstream conveyor based on the predicted dimension for the upcoming article. Further, the release times of the set of upstream articles is dynamically computed based on a cumulative length of the set of upstream articles and an operating speed of the upstream conveyor.

Conveyor article management system

Various embodiments described herein relate to a material handling system including a first conveyor and a second conveyor positioned such that a curved section of the second conveyor is substantially concentric with a curved section of the first conveyor. The speed of the first conveyor and the second conveyor are matched such that a loaded cross belt carriage may transfer an article on to an empty cross belt carriage at the curved sections of the first conveyor and the second conveyor. The speed of the first conveyor and the second conveyor are matched using a speed matching routine executed by a central controller such that the transfer of the article is facilitated at the curved sections of the first conveyor and the second conveyor.

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Mason, OH, United States of America

Brian Resnick