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Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020

Filed:

May. 21, 2018
Applicant:

Vanderlande Industries B.v., Veghel, NL;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/00 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/1378 (2013.01); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); B65G 2209/08 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2621 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for collecting products listed in an order in a product collecting system having a plurality of modules, the method including: assigning the order to a module, allocating a product listed in the order to the order if the product is already available in the module, allocating a product to the order from another module if the product of the 'slow-moving' type is not already available in the module whereas it is available in the other module, allocating a product to the order from a pallet warehouse if the product of the 'slow-moving' type is not already available in the module nor in another module, and releasing the order and loading the products onto a collecting carrier when all the products listed in the order have been collected in the module.


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