Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC

6 River Systems, Inc.

Charles Christopher Lingamfelter

Ralf Buerkle

Douglas K Schack

Jonathon Cleary

Christopher M Cacioppo

Tim Higgins

Tucker Kelman Moffat

Joshua Chaitin-Pollak

A material handling system has a vertical lift two vertically aligned carriages that are independently positionable on a vertical support structure by respective drive systems. A processor subsystem selects one of the two carriages to move an article from at least one in-feed conveyor to a selected level of an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS). The processor subsystem concurrently positions the other carriage to avoid a collision.

AS/RS lift having vertically-aligned dual carriages

Methods and apparatus for efficiently fulfilling product orders corresponding are described. Order items are divided into those which are to be automatically picked using an automated pick cell including a loader, such as a robotic arm, storage buffers and an apparatus for transferring the automatically picked items onto a robotic cart. The manually picked items are picked by a human picker guided by the robotic cart. The manual pick can occur before or after the automatic pick of items. In some embodiments whether items are to be automatically picked before or after the manual pick portion of an order depends on which ordering will allow for packing of the items corresponding to an order into the least number of receptacles, e.g., totes which are transported by the robotic pick carts.

Warehouse automation system methods and apparatus

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Rye, NH, United States of America

Charles Christopher Lingamfelter